Conspiracy theory: no one actually turned in the CEO Shooter.
He was caught using deep state surveillance, but, admitting that would admit that the government can stop crime like this, and only choose to use this technology to protect our rich loser overlords.
The McDonald's employee doesn't exist, it's a trick to get people to get people to blame the poor for this "oh, this poor worker at McDonald's threw this guy under the bus and sucked up to the government".
The official narrative that he was recognized makes absolutely no sense to me so far.