MILWAUKEE — A former worker at the Molson Coors brewery in Milwaukee has been charged with threatening to open fire at the facility after learning his termination had been upheld.
Online court records show 28-year-old Jamal Jury of Milwaukee was charged Saturday with making terrorist threats and sending threatening computer messages.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jury was suspended from his job in February 2020 for threatening to open fire during a workplace argument. Later that day another brewery worker, Anthony Ferrill, shot five of his co-workers before he killed himself in one of the worst mass shootings in Wisconsin history. Investigators later determined that Ferrill had been shown signs of paranoia and erratic behavior for three years before the shooting.
Jury was taken into custody shortly after that shooting but investigators concluded he wasn’t involved. Molson Coors filed a restraining order against him, however.
According to the complaint, he got a call on Wednesday informing him that his termination had been upheld following an arbitration hearing and asked a union official on the phone “What’s to stop me from shooting up the place?”
Another Molson Coors employee showed officials text messages Jury sent him in August saying he wanted to “shoot the brewery up.”
Jury’s attorney, listed in online court records as public defender Brett Copeland, didn’t immediately respond to a message Tuesday.
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This story has been updated to correct the name of Jury’s attorney to Brett Copeland.