Waffle House waitress fatally shot in the head after she asked customer not to smoke

Biloxi police Sgt. Donnie Dobbs said Julie
Brightwell, 52, who was an employee of a Waffle
house in Biloxi, Miss. was shot in the head after
arguing with a customer about smoking inside the
restaurant around 1 a.m. Friday because the
restaurant had a no smoking policy.
Broghtwell died at Merit Health Biloxi a short time
later.
The customer, Johnny Max Mount, 45, who was a
former firefighter was arrested as he was walking
out of the restaurant. He was booked at the
Harrison County jail on a charge of first-degree
murder.
Mount, Dobbs said, was armed with a 9 mm
handgun at the time of the shooting.

pulled out a handgun and shot her in the head,'
Sgt Dobbs said.
Linda Kilpatrick, friend of Brightwell's, told WKRG:
'How could you kill someone over a freaking
cigarette, c’mon, and on Thanksgiving night?'
'She was working the shift like she always does.
Was it a regular, was it somebody who’s never
been in the store before? I don’t know.'
Mount is being held on a $2 million bond set by
Justice Court Judge Albert Fountain.