A Texas attorney was shot dead by an irate McDonald’s customer after he tried to calm him down and told him to stop shouting at staff about his order.
Jeffrey Limmer, 46, stepped in when a customer started shouting at McDonald’s employees at the branch on 8147 Katy Freeway, Houston, on Saturday at 6pm.
Limmer tried to calm the man down and then as they fought outside the store, the angry man went to his car, pulled out a gun and shot him twice.
The gunman then fled the scene in an early 2000s blue Ford pickup truck and has not yet been identified.
Limmer’s sister, Jennifer Thomas, told ABC13 it was unsurprising Limmer had stepped in, saying, “he’s always wanted to fight for the little guy and do the right thing.”
According to Thomas, Limmer lived near to the McDonald’s and went there often.
He worked as an attorney in a local law office, Lewis Brisbois, having attended the University of Texas and then graduated law school at South Texas College of Law.
Thomas said he had likely gone to the McDonald’s on Saturday evening to get some work done.
She said he had spent all of his career trying to help others, so she wasn’t surprised to hear that he had tried to help the employees.
“Knowing Jeff, he’s the one who always says, ‘Calm down. It’s not that big of a deal,’ and divert the situation,” she said.
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