Angry McDonald's Customer Fatally Shoots Lawyer: Police

A Texas attorney was shot and killed on Saturday after trying to calm an angry customer outside a McDonald's in Houston.

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

Limmer had tried to intervene to calm the customer, who was arguing with staff because he was dissatisfied with his order and wanted a refund.

The pair got into a fight that ended up outside, during which Limmer pushed the customer to the ground.

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

Limmer ran back into the restaurant after being shot and paramedics were called, but the attorney died of his injuries, police said, according to local outlet Click2Houston.

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

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

Limmer's sister, Jennifer Thomas, told ABC13 that her brother was the type of person to "do the right thing."

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

Thomas said that her parents were at her daughter's graduation when they received the news about his death.

"He loved fiercely his family and friends," Thomas said about her brother. "Always laughing, making jokes, and just loving life."

Limmer was an associate at Lewis Brisbois, a Houston area law firm, and primarily practiced general liability law.

Greg Monteverde, a childhood friend of Limmer's, told Fox26 that he had driven past the scene of the crime without knowing the victim was his old friend.

Monteverde said that the news was a "gut punch," and that he knew Limmer to be the type of person to intervene in such a situation.

"I thought it was brave. I respect it," Monteverde said. "I think a lot of us knew Jeff to be that type of individual. In school, he would invite somebody who wasn't the most popular student to a party or things like that."

This is not the first time a branch of the fast food chain has found itself to be the site of a shooting this year.

In March, an underage employee was shot at the drive-thru lane at a branch in Nashville, Tennessee, leaving them critically injured.

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