The owner of a Pennsylvania McDonald’s says he is not feeling any lovin’ from company honchos after his worker spotted the Facebook murderer.
Tom DuCharme praised his eagle-eyed employee but told The Post that he had yet to hear directly from his corporate office after Steve Stephens took off with his 20-piece McNuggets Tuesday and shot himself moments later.
“We haven’t heard anything … as of yet,” he said a day after the dramatic denouement a couple of miles away.
Authorities have not yet confirmed whether the drive-through worker will be given the $50,000 in reward money that was offered in the case. DuCharme said he heard nothing about the money.
But a customer who pulled up to buy a burger and fries Wednesday supersized his praise for the employee — saying she should receive all the money.
“The girl at the window should get the full amount and if she wants to share it with the manager, it’s up to her,” Brooklyn-born Andy Tompkins, 65, told The Post. “The guy was armed and didn’t even have a beard — but the girl noticed him.”
Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook told The Post that he would not be able to confirm whether Stephens was clean-shaven until after an autopsy was completed later Wednesday.
“Right now he’s a John Doe to us,” Cook said. “We’re awaiting to get fingerprints from state police. We can’t afford to make a mistake.”
Investigators were still trying to determine Stephens’ whereabouts after he gunned down Robert Godwin Sr., 74, on Easter Sunday and posted the execution video on Facebook, state police Capt. James Basinger told GoErie.com.
“We definitely want to work on that timeline as to what he was doing in Pennsylvania,” he said.
Stephens’ white Ford Fusion was undergoing forensics tests and his gun was expected to be checked against a database to see if it was used in any other crimes, he said.
“We are obviously handling the suicide investigation, but we want to cooperate with the other agencies and provide as much information as we can to assist in their investigation,” Basinger said.
Meanwhile, DuCharme recounted the final moments of Stephens’ life as he craved the Golden Arches repast.
“We were getting ready for lunch hour and I was working with my team when my drive-through person thought she ID’d the man at the pay window,” he said. “She got on the phone and called police, then called me to verify if what she saw was correct.”
DuCharme walked over and glanced out the window at the suspect.
“Yeah, it looks like it to me,” he told her as Stephens drove over to the pickup window, where he requested barbecue sauce from the eatery’s supervisor.
But he grew increasingly nervous when the supervisor told him his large fries were not ready yet.
“He said he didn’t have any time, flipped his hands in the air and you could see a little bit of a change of expression,” he said. “He said, ‘I’m not gonna wait for the fries, I gotta go!’ He then took off in a hurry with the nuggets.”
But a state police car was on his tail as soon as he hit Buffalo Road, where he shot himself in the head a couple of miles away.
McDonald’s did not return a message Wednesday about the fast-thinking staffers.
The company praised the crew in a short statement provided Tuesday to ABC News.
“We applaud the crew members at this McDonald’s restaurant who recognized the suspect and did the right thing by quickly alerting the authorities of his location,” the statement said.
Funeral services for Godwin are planned for 11 a.m. Saturday at the River of Life Ministries, 24600 Lakeshore Blvd. in Euclid, Ohio.