The Region - News from July 10, 1987

McDonald’s cannot be held responsible for the actions of a berserk gunman who killed 21 people and wounded 19 others at the chain’s San Ysidro restaurant, the 4th U.S. District Court of Appeal ruled. In upholding a lower court’s finding in a suit on behalf of 26 survivors and victims, the appellate court took the chain to task for failing to provide even minimal security in a high-crime neighborhood, yet ruled unanimously that no precaution McDonald’s might have taken would have prevented the July 18, 1984, onslaught by James Oliver Huberty, who was killed by a police sharpshooter.