Joseph Hennings, a 39-year-old from Murrieta, California, was shot and killed on October 9, 2015, inside a McDonald’s on Bradley Drive in Menifee during a child custody exchange. The shooting occurred while Hennings and Amanda Jeanne Harwood, the child’s mother, were talking inside the restaurant; Harwood produced a handgun and shot Hennings. Paramedics pronounced Hennings dead at the scene and Harwood was taken into custody immediately.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and the Menifee Police Department investigated. Harwood was charged with first-degree murder, with a special-circumstance allegation of lying in wait, and held without bail at the Robert Presley Detention Center. The child was placed with the Department of Public Social Services.

Does anyone have information about the custody exchange arrangements that day or witnessed activity at the restaurant before the shooting?