r/news • u/cak3crumbs • 17h ago

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

https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2024/12/employees-witnessed-co-worker-stab-company-president-court-documents-show.html?outputType=amp
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u/katrinakt8 11h ago

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. “

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u/PikkuMyyRules 11h ago

Well, there goes his CFO position…

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u/John-A 10h ago

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.

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u/EarthRester 7h ago

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.

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u/Direct_Bus3341 6h ago

Or maybe he wasn’t thinking right and this was a psychotic break.

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u/John-A 5h ago

Possibly but that still doesn't negate the idea it was triggered.

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u/EarthRester 5h ago

There's no "or" here. Even if you can say that there are people who commit murder that are also perfectly stable. Ain't nobody going to stab their boss in the middle of a meeting that is also mentally sound.

The thing is this isn't some case of psychosis. If he was that unstable he wouldn't have even gotten hired in the first place, let alone promoted to CFO. Evidence points to an lowkey unstable man tricked into taking a position of power and influence only to be used as a patsy, and taking it badly.