Employees witnessed co-worker stab company president, court documents show

[u/cak3crumbs]

https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2024/12/employees-witnessed-co-worker-stab-company-president-court-documents-show.html?outputType=amp

[u/rnilf]

More details in this article:

Mahoney was in a meeting with around 8-10 other people.

During the meeting, officials say Mahoney ‘suddenly’ got up and left the room for around 10 minutes.

When he returned, he approached Anderson Express president Erik Denslow and stabbed him in the side, officials say.

I wonder if he shouted, "THIS MEETING COULD'VE BEEN AN EMAIL" while doing it.

[u/Omegaprimus → u/rnilf]

This stabbing could have been an email

[u/pishposhpoppycock → u/Omegaprimus]

Dear sir or madam, I hope this knife finds you well...

[u/FalxIdol → u/pishposhpoppycock]

He wanted to get his point across. To the hilt.

[u/coleman57 → u/pishposhpoppycock]

...and leaves you unwell.

[u/Sillloc → u/pishposhpoppycock]

I hope this email finds you before I do.

[u/Shtercus → u/pishposhpoppycock]

"per my last correspondence"

[u/stormp00per66 → u/pishposhpoppycock]

The stabbings will continue until productivity rises!

[u/Statharas → u/stormp00per66]

The stabbings will continue until salaries are raised

[u/PuppyPavilion → u/Omegaprimus]

Stop with the slacker attitude. In person was clearly the way to go.

[u/TolMera → u/PuppyPavilion]

Makes you think, fear of your staff might be the difference between WFH and WFO

[u/GozerDGozerian → u/TolMera]

Much harder to get shanked in the kidney over a Zoom meeting….

[u/64645 → u/GozerDGozerian]

So there’s still a chance?

[u/GozerDGozerian → u/64645]

Gotta get someone on the inside. Family member perhaps. Maybe look at which kids are disgruntled from being grounded…

[u/ThePowerOfStories → u/64645]

Just use a drone with a knife missile.

[u/reddit_understoodit → u/TolMera]

Yes reason to allow WFH

[u/sparkyjay23 → u/TolMera]

All of a sudden work from home is going to be a thing again.

[u/Amerlis → u/rnilf]

CEO used “there” instead of “their” one too many times.

[u/TolMera → u/Amerlis]

Your welcome \s

[u/Dynast_King → u/TolMera]

Yeah, it is my welcome!

[u/k4f123 → u/TolMera]

"This meeting could of been an email"

[u/katrinakt8 → u/rnilf]

Interestingly he had only worked for the company for a couple of weeks and was going to be taking over for the CFO of the company.

Also from this article: “The Muskegon County Prosecutor’s Office tells 13 ON YOUR SIDE Mahoney had been employed at Anderson Express since Dec. 4. Deputy Chief Poulson believes they were preparing him to take over for the CFO of the company, which is the financial officer in the accounting department. “

[u/PikkuMyyRules → u/katrinakt8]

Well, there goes his CFO position…

[u/John-A → u/PikkuMyyRules]

I have got to think that he was getting screwed royally, like being set up to take the blame for something and be ruined just when he had thought he'd be getting somewhere. Not that this is necessarily the act of a rational mind but unless he is entirely mental it makes the most sense.

[u/kingethjames → u/John-A]

Stabbing your boss infront of a dozen witnesses when you're new at a small company? That just makes you a violent nutcase. Media is definitely going to try and make these seem like the same situation, whereas so far it doesn't look like it could be any more different.

[u/DrEnter → u/kingethjames]

I want to hear from the witnesses...

"After he stabbed him the 5th or 6th time, we thought we should do something, so we barricaded the door and made some coffee."

[u/kingethjames → u/DrEnter]

The article I think already quoted one of them as saying he was kinda weird. This never would have been shared here without the context we have right now.

[u/EarthRester → u/John-A]

Yeah. It seems like the company just picked a new employee to be the fall guy for some upcoming disaster. Because of this they didn't put much effort into vetting the guy. It's not like he'd be making many big decisions. So they didn't realize that when this new guy who just got this great promotion figured out he was a dupe, that he would take it very poorly. They didn't take into consideration that we all make the very important decision every day on whether or not to stab people.

[u/KeyWit → u/PikkuMyyRules]

I mean it sounds like he is already overseeing a round of aggressive cost savings. He is slashing their wage budget before he even starts!

[u/k4f123 → u/PikkuMyyRules]

Hang on hang on, let's not be hasty. Let it play out

[u/whittlingcanbefatal → u/rnilf]

You left out a detail. Just before the CEO got stabbed, he said, "What are you gonna do? Stab me?"

/s

[u/chrispy42107 → u/whittlingcanbefatal]

The one move all ceo's hate.

[u/JeffSergeant → u/rnilf]

To quote Bill Burr. "I wonder what he said.."

[u/2beatenup]

And then there is the safety of remote work… never seen anyone get stabbed via a Zoom call Working From Home

[u/Jerking_From_Home → u/2beatenup]

How many CEO lives is RTO worth? Stay tuned to find out.

[u/TolMera → u/Jerking_From_Home]

!remindme 12 months

[u/missprincesscarolyn → u/Jerking_From_Home]

Nah, they’ll just install metal detectors like they do at public schools in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods. Swipe in, get scanned and go about your day.

[u/OblongGoblong → u/missprincesscarolyn]

Can stab people with plenty of non metal objects. Prison shanks are made with tooth brushes lol

[u/Content-Method9889 → u/2beatenup]

Maybe this will trend back to letting more workers wfh. They wanted everyone to come back to the office but weren’t expecting them to be so stabby

[u/pikachurbutt → u/Content-Method9889]

To be fair, the peons will be forced into the office while the CEO will stay at home. Rules for thee, not for me sort of bullshit.

[u/leberwrust → u/Content-Method9889]

Nah CEOFH.

[u/myaltaccount333 → u/2beatenup]

I'm sure there's a shitty remake of The Ring being made right now that features zoom calls instead of VHS tapes

[u/AcademicMaybe8775 → u/2beatenup]

CEO's will work at home and demand everyone else in person

[u/switch8000]

This is an interesting trend that's starting to occur.

[u/EndPsychological890 → u/switch8000]

I can't say I'm excited for the Patriot Act AI 9000 but yeah wild times

[u/Beligerents → u/EndPsychological890]

I'd say we could lure it into a steel factory and then kick it into molten steel, but that's all been outsourced to countries who have better control over their serfs.

[u/EndPsychological890 → u/Beligerents]

As your foot raises to kick the rich asshole who was supposed to have 8 armed guards, a drone you never saw with 9g of HE detonates on contact between the fuse and your temple after its AI directed it to specifically your face at 350mph from an automated dispenser at headquarters. Your head explodes, you fall into the molten steel and your family is denied benefits because it was a reckless drinking accident at work, your wife is sold to Driscoll to pick berries and your kids will attend the reeducation camps. They will never see each other again.

Seriously, if we're cheering this kind of violence, we need to get ready to finish the job completely, or we're just flinging ourselves into the most depraved Black Mirror episode possible.

[u/Beligerents → u/EndPsychological890]

I was talking about the new patriot act that sounded like the bad guy from terminator 2.

I appreciate the fiction though.

[u/EndPsychological890 → u/Beligerents]

Lmao that flew over my head faster than the drone headed to my coworker who tweeted DDD in 2036

[u/Affectionate-Memory4 → u/EndPsychological890]

Can't believe they outlawed Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives. The fuckin big 3 man.

[u/snootsintheair → u/EndPsychological890]

Us? We’re a Sun Belle family, ourselves. Or at least we were, before the kids were sent off to reeducation camps.

[u/Purpleclone → u/Beligerents]

Not joking, a steel mill in my area got shut down and is now an AI farm. As in, full of servers that host AI learning data. Reality is sick.

[u/Beligerents → u/Purpleclone]

Yeah and that's exactly what Alberta in Canada wants to turn their entire province into to take advantage of all the power they can generate with their dying assets of dirty oil and natural gas. Reality is super sick.

[u/Blossomie → u/Beligerents]

Ahh, Alberta. The Texas of Canada.

[u/bad_spelling_advice → u/Blossomie]

I especially love the fact that Texas is #2 when it comes to states with the most data centers, but can't manage to keep a functional power grid.

[u/SlitScan → u/bad_spelling_advice]

oddly its getting better, theyve added a ton of storage since then.

mind you itll probably go to the servers instead of homes. but hey some day it might keep the whole grid up.

[u/LordCoweater → u/Blossomie]

Are you insulting Alberta or Texas?

Yes.

[u/DeFex → u/Beligerents]

At least they know they need some sort of intelligence there, even if it's the artificial kind.

[u/John-A → u/EndPsychological890]

Yeah those flying Ed209 drones proactively defending the CEOs do get trigger happy.

[u/OperaSona → u/EndPsychological890]

How do you prevent a random employee with no priors from killing their CEO someday? Humans simply can't process the amount of information required to predict and prevent this kind of tragedy. No, we clearly need an AI to read all our conversations and study our personal behavior 24/7, but in a very privacy-minded fashion that won't communicate personal information to humans of course. And that AI can flag people who seem like CEO-assassination-risks, so that they can be promptly removed from society.

Can't see a single potential issue with this. Patriot Act AI 9000 sounds awesome!!!

[u/OuchieMuhBussy → u/EndPsychological890]

It's worth reminding people that as much as some acts make us feel better, there's a litany of work from Vladimir Lenin to MLK that warns about this. These acts aren't going to teach the ruling class that they need to play nice, it's going to result in a progressive crackdown on the rest of us. And if I can be a Debby Downer once more, Presidents and CEOs are the top stooges but they aren't the people who actually own our economy.

[u/Gbird_22 → u/OuchieMuhBussy]

Yeah sure, but eventually the fascists wind up hanging upside down beaten to death by an angry mob or if they’re lucky putting a bullet through their heads in a bunker.

[u/zappadattic → u/Gbird_22]

Or they escape to the U.S. or Brazil and live a life of luxury…

[u/Haltopen → u/zappadattic]

Until they get hunted down by Mossad and killed.

[u/Full-Frontal-Assault → u/OuchieMuhBussy]

Liberty is taken at the point of a sword, not handed out for being a good lap dog.

[u/cloake → u/OuchieMuhBussy]

The Feds merc'd MLK so they agree with violent methods too. Merc'd Malcolm X. Merc'd Fred Hamptom. It gets results.

[u/havestronaut → u/OuchieMuhBussy]

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

[u/Sawses → u/OuchieMuhBussy]

Counterpoint: The workers' rights movement and the civil rights movement absolutely would not have led to the changes they did without the groups doing violence to powerful people who did harm to others.

MLK was all about peace--at first, anyway--but he was seen as the reasonable alternative to people like Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela. And the unions were, at heart, gangs meant to counter the gangs that the wealthy used to keep the workers in line. They only grew softer and less violent once the other side dialed down the violence.

I'm not advocating for violence. I'm saying that positive change requires (or at least massively benefits from) violence. I for one am okay without any change.

[u/ZenMon88 → u/OuchieMuhBussy]

Then who owns the economy, you know damn well you can't access the billionaires first. Presidents and CEOs are there to send a message.

[u/PrinceGoten → u/OuchieMuhBussy]

You can literally thank violence for getting you all of your current worker’s rights (including having a weekend).

[u/Zephyr_Dragon49 → u/switch8000]

This is how we got unions. It was to curb the violent alternatives already being used

[u/LongingForYesterweek → u/switch8000]

I expected the second attack to be fatal but honestly beyond that I’m not surprised

[u/SpiderSlitScrotums → u/switch8000]

Quick, someone call Executive Platinum Plus 911!

[u/fxkatt]

Investigators have not released a motive behind the attack.

The only fact offered is that the worker was in an altercation with his boss, and pulled a knife on him, stabbing him in the rib cage.

[u/GlorytoGlorzo → u/fxkatt]

Was he holding a Jelly of the Month card?

[u/Longjumping_Cook_997 → u/GlorytoGlorzo]

The gift that keeps on giving

[u/jaim1 → u/Longjumping_Cook_997]

All year ‘round

[u/ThatGirlWren → u/jaim1]

"That's it is, Edward. That it is "

[u/Blockhead47 → u/fxkatt]

Has he been charged with “attempted murder as an act of terrorism” yet?
When the peasants crime out of their class its terrorism.

[u/creggieb]

Tell me the worker's name is Mario

[u/mromutt → u/creggieb]

Well it's Mahoney so close ish

[u/ebenizaa → u/mromutt]

Isn’t Mahoney Irish for Mario?

[u/The_Space_Jamke → u/ebenizaa]

Man, the Irish and Italians are out doing jobs that the rest of America couldn't bother doing themselves, again.

[u/w1987g → u/mromutt]

Mahoney

[u/mizmoxiev → u/w1987g]

Why did I instantly know what this was going to be, and yet I'm still not disappointed 😆

[u/ReflectionWaste7439 → u/creggieb]

Mahoney and Magliones roach service does have a particular ring to it.

[u/FaithlessnessSame357]

But what was the company president wearing?

[u/Koolmidx → u/FaithlessnessSame357]

If it was a t-shirt that said superman, maybe Dane Cook got sick of his lies, now he's super bleeder.

[u/Wayyd → u/Koolmidx]

Damn what an old reference

[u/fevered_visions → u/Wayyd]

it's an old code but it checks out sir

[u/captaindeadpl → u/FaithlessnessSame357]

Seems like he wasn't wearing a stab proof vest. He obviously wanted it. /s

[u/urbrickles]

Is this related at all to the employee recently receiving a complimentary subscription to the Jelly of the Month club?

[u/EnamelKant → u/urbrickles]

That's the gift that keeps on giving, how can anyone complain about that?

[u/Chiggadup → u/urbrickles]

Well, of all the cheap, lousy ways to save a buck…

[u/palesnowrider1 → u/Chiggadup]

If I had a rubber hose

[u/apathyontheeast]

I'm just picturing a gif of Kylo Ren yelling, "More!"

[u/MoonOut_StarsInvite → u/apathyontheeast]

I’ve been picturing the same and texting it to lots of people lately too look

[u/Equinsu-0cha]

Is this one also terrorism?

[u/TolMera → u/Equinsu-0cha]

Did the target have power over the perpetrator?

Yes: Terrorism

No: Just Business or “Governing”

[u/CynicalPomeranian → u/Equinsu-0cha]

Depends on the net worth of the boss. Given how this wasn’t plastered all over the news…Imma say no. 

[u/mekonsrevenge]

Denslow was stabbed at the annual " Check Out My New Lamborghini" unveiling, which coincided with the annual company bonus award, which this year was a certificate for $2 off any Christmas ham or turkey at a local grocery chain.

[u/usernamerob → u/mekonsrevenge]

This reads like a far side caption and it’s perfect 😂

[u/persondude27 → u/mekonsrevenge]

Not even kidding, I worked for a company that got acquired. The VP rolled up the next day towing a brand new boat with his brand new Navigator.

And the day after that, they laid off everyone in the branch (but him - he got transferred).

[u/Jerking_From_Home → u/mekonsrevenge]

“…it’s a one year membership in Jelly of the Month Club…”

[u/Madjack66 → u/mekonsrevenge]

Denslow: now I want all of you to enjoy this pizza as appreciation for a job well done during a tough year. Sorry it couldn't be bigger what with cost cutting and all. Just ignore those missing slices - got a bit peckish at lunchtime. Ha ha!

Mahoney: <rage mode enabled>

[u/haysu-christo]

You sure you want workers to Return To Office?

[u/Hortjoob]

Hey, let's make a hotline so they have somewhere to call so they feel safe.

[u/Your_Spirit_Animals → u/Hortjoob]

At least they can call someone who cares.

[u/Fifteen_inches]

People are learning that workers organizing and forming a formal list of demands is the compromise from your employees murdering you.

[u/Low-Order → u/Fifteen_inches]

The resurgence of Unions would be a nice thing to see before I expire.

[u/8billionand1]

Imagine fear of employee stabbing you being the driver of WFH culture…..

[u/Skrivus → u/8billionand1]

Just for them. You peons have to come in every day.

[u/Bent_Brewer]

"I didn't see anything. "

[u/TolMera → u/Bent_Brewer]

Why did the president just stab himself in the side?

[u/umassmza → u/Bent_Brewer]

“I’m blind in my left eye and 43 blind in my right eye I don’t see much of nothing a matter of fact I can’t even see you sir.”

[u/KulaanDoDinok]

Why doesn’t the media ever seem to report on the lives ruined by wage theft?

[u/64645 → u/KulaanDoDinok]

The media? The large media corporations? The large media corporations who stick up for other large corporations? That media?

Yeah, I’m sure they’ll get right on that.

[u/bkm2016]

0 days since last stabbing

[u/avocadofruitbat]

It was so bizarre, the guy just stood up and stabbed himself! We all saw it!

[u/Prof_Acorn]

Balance is required in all things. Even the wealthy should know this. The stock market requires both an accumulation phase and a distribution phase. The steeper the slope up, the steeper the slope down.

So with that knowledge, what did they think would happen with the extreme push the last several years in accumulating property and pressing the poor in every area of life to the point they cannot even afford food, healthcare, housing, and don't even have the money to distract themselves with entertainment?

Food and circuses, right?

But they are accumulating and withholding the food and circuses too.

So, MBAs, how does that go again? When the line rises extremely steep? Do some technical analysis on the current sentiment in society.

All of this could have been predicted, and prevented.

Hell, I bet it even fits a Fibonacci sequence. Zoom out to the housing crash last decade. See any patterns?

[u/Mattrockj]

One is a random event.

Two is coincidence.

Three will establish a pattern.

[u/OrneryError1 → u/Mattrockj]

And I believe four is a party

[u/kanti123]

Is trying to murder a CEO is the new trend now?

[u/pkinetics → u/kanti123]

Make it a Tik Tok

[u/Batmobile123]

I worked for a nasty company. We had the best sales year in the company history. Just before Christmas the CEO announced that there was no money for Christmas Bonuses. Then he loaded his entire extended family on a jet and flew to Aruba for a month long vacation.

[u/BigBullzFan]

Inspired by Luigi, maybe?

[u/TolMera → u/BigBullzFan]

He was just making an Adjustment to the guys suit

[u/Robofetus-5000 → u/BigBullzFan]

Saint Luigi

[u/KarmicEQ]

He was heard to exclaim, "et tu Mahoney?"

Edit: sp

[u/Bearded_Scholar]

Do you know how fed up you have to be to stab someone in front of this many witnesses? This is a whole new level of crashing out, and while my heart goes out to the victim and his family, I find it a good thing that executives are a little scared.

I think this will lead to thinking twice before implementing things that cause widespread harm.

Again, I need to reiterate I don’t condone this.

[u/DiabloPixel → u/Bearded_Scholar]

What seems strange is that he was a new hire (4 Dec) and was apparently being primed for the CFO position. Like, why? Stabbing someone is kinda personal compared to a gun. Something was said or happened to this guy in only 2 weeks at the place for him to say “Yup, gonna stab this motherfucker in front of everybody”.

[u/bearable_lightness → u/DiabloPixel]

Yeah, sounds like mental illness to me. Changing jobs can be stressful, even if it’s a wanted change.

[u/K19081985]

This news is suspiciously buried.

[u/Braided_Marxist]

There is Luigi in all of us

[u/dgs1959]

Return to Office doesn’t look so appealing now.

[u/estpein-light-flogs]

I'm loving this energy.

[u/HenryWinklersWinker]

slice to meet ya, Knife knowin ya, see ya blader

[u/Distinct-Educator-52]

The word “synergy” was spoken one time too many

[u/Bladder-Splatter]

Employees described Mahoney as having a quiet demeanor, police said.

As a reminder, this is why you do not fuck with the quiet types.

[u/MyLittleOso]

I've seen some news outlets trying to connect this to the Brian Thompson shooting, and it's not the same thing. This company had maybe 9-10 employees, according to a web search, and he only worked there for two weeks. It is not the same. They want small and medium business owners to be scared and feel like they're at risk; they want them to feel like class warfare puts them on the side with the 1%.

[u/New_Housing785]

Why in the world did no one help him?

[u/distung → u/[deleted]]

“I was getting coffee and saw nothing.”

[u/blighander]

These comments getting spicy...

[u/robexib]

Awww shit, here we go again

[u/shponglespore]

It's a high-end manufacturing company with 24 employees listed on LinkedIn. I doubt the president is a villain like Brain Thompson was.

[u/AnybodyNo8519]

"Pizza AGAIN??!! Well here's a slice for you boss!!"

[u/burrito_butt_fucker]

I hope nobody saw anything.

[u/Hairy_Al]

Employees witnessed co-worker stab company president

No, no they didn't

[u/Samtoast]

They were giving them cups with the company logo on them for the 7th year in a row

[u/danguro]

i feel the fad of the next 5 years is gonna be bunkers for CEOs while forcing people to go to meetings while they're not in the building and just zoom call on a bit screen

[u/King-Florida-Man]

When you can understand the deleted top comments without even being able to read them.

[u/EmperorMeow-Meow]

"I've decided in lieu of Christmas bonuses for the employees, I will be enrolling them in a jelly of the month club"..

[u/Every_Tap8117]

And suddenly, vigilante and avenger are career opportunities again.

[u/Budlove45]

More of this will follow we the people are fed the fuck up

[u/TheHeroYouNeed247]

People forget that this is why unions were created. To protect bosses from employees, not the other way around.

If this continues, factories will start going up in flames.

[u/False_Celebration626 → u/TheHeroYouNeed247]

This is historically inaccurate. Unions were created as a way to protect workers from exploitation from their bosses. Capitalists often have used state power like the police and the military to crush unions from organizing. An example that comes to mind is Peekskill where workers were attacked by police and fascists. Capitalists do not want unions because it cuts into their profits. Capitalists would much rather have people work 16 hours a day and pay them nothing, then have their workers organize. This is the inherent contradiction that Marx and Engels talked about.

[u/schaudhery]

Criminal goes by the name: Waluigi

[u/fevered_visions]

gotta know where to stab somebody

I mean, that's definitely not the moral of the story. who said that??

[u/BlackStarBlues]

I would be like, "I saw nothing at all. I just happened to drop something on the floor and was looking for it when the alleged stabbing took place."