Amherst · Sweet Home at Maple
ONGOINGDawn Call at the Golden Arches: Staff Reports a Gun, Officers Track A Blue Buick
An Amherst PD complainant phoned from a McDonald's around 5:50 a.m.; the suspect was last seen heading southbound on Sweet Home in a blue Buick.
A pre-shift Amherst PD dispatcher at 05:50 took a call from a McDonald's employee that the radio recorded this way: “our complainant is staff at McDonald's and the female said to get a gun” A few seconds later the unit clarified that the complainant had walked the statement back — “Check that. She said the male subject that left with her had the gun” — and turned the case from a present-arm incident at a counter into a vehicle hunt.
Units were given the lookout “looking for the male who left southbound Sweet Home in King Edward Boy 2614”. The car was not stopped during the window; a unit later noted a drop-off location at 206 Niagara Falls Boulevard for the female who had remained on scene at the McDonald's. No injuries were transmitted; the case stays open going into the morning.