Waiter, 28, shot dead by customer for slow service

A MANHUNT is under way after a waiter was shot dead by a customer at a café on the outskirts of Paris, apparently for being too slow to serve him.

Enraged at being made to wait for a sandwich, the customer pulled out a handgun and shot the 28-year-old waiter in the shoulder, witnesses said.

The waiter was still conscious when police and an ambulance arrived minutes after the Friday night shooting, but frantic efforts to save him failed and he died at the Mistral pizza and sandwich outlet in the east Paris suburb of Noisy-le-grand.

Witnesses helped police identify a suspect, described as a 34-year-old man with a criminal record.