Angry McDonald’s customer fatally shoots lawyer: police

A Texas lawyer was shot and killed Saturday after trying to calm an angry customer outside a Houston McDonald’s.

The victim, 46-year-old Jeffrey Limmer, was shot twice by the gunman, who then fled the scene, Houston police said, according to ABC7.

Limmer had attempted to intervene to calm the customer, who was arguing with staff because he was unhappy with his order and demanded a refund.

The two got into an argument that ended outside and Limmer pushed the customer to the ground.

The suspect then went to his car to get a gun and shot Limmer twice before driving away in an early 2000s blue Ford pickup, police told ABC7.

After Limmer was shot, he ran back into the restaurant and paramedics were called, but the lawyer died from his injuries, police said, according to local news outlet Click2Houston.

The incident occurred around 6 p.m. Saturday at 8147 Katy Freeway, police told the outlet.

Police have not released any further information and it is not clear whether the suspect has been arrested.

Limmer’s sister, Jennifer Thomas, told ABC13 that her brother was the type of person who “does the right thing.”

“Knowing Jeff, he’s the one who always says, ‘Calm down. “It’s not that big of a deal’ and deflects the situation,” Thomas said. “He always wanted to fight for the little guy and do the right thing.”

Thomas said her parents were at their daughter’s graduation when they received the news of his death.

“He loved his family and his friends more than anything,” Thomas said of her brother. “Always laugh, make jokes and just love life.”

Limmer was an associate at Lewis Brisbois, a Houston-area law firm, practicing primarily in general liability law.

Greg Monteverde, a childhood friend of Limmer’s, told Fox26 that he drove by the crime scene without knowing the victim was his old friend.

Monteverde said the news was a “punch in the gut” and that he knew Limmer was the guy who could intervene in such a situation.

“I thought it was brave. I respect it,” Monteverde said. “I think a lot of us knew Jeff was that type of person. At school he would invite someone who wasn’t the most popular student to a party or something like that.”

It is not the first time this year that a branch of the fast food chain has been the scene of a shooting.

In March, an underage employee was shot and critically injured in the drive-thru lane of a Nashville, Tennessee, store.

And in January, an 18-year-old man was shot with a pellet gun outside a McDonald’s in Hillsborough County, Florida.