Texas lawyer, 46, is shot and killed by McDonald’s customer after asking man to stop shouting at staff after being enraged by 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.
Limmer pushed the angry customer to the floor, according to the detectives, and then the man got off the floor and ran to his car.
He took a gun out of his car and shot Limmer twice, before fleeing in his pickup truck.
Limmer then ran back into the McDonalds where staff called paramedics.
The suspect has not yet been identified.