When fired or laid off from a job, there’s various ways folks cope with the job loss. Studies and sources report the newly-unemployed typically either begin to search for a new job, while others throw themselves in self-care, prioritize their mental health or start therapy.
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But for one fired fast-food worker in Ohio, police say he skipped the usual response and instead carried out a deadly plan for revenge.
It was Aug. 28 in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati when 21-year-old Jonathan Morris was fired from his job at Taco Bell, according to Law & Crime. Why he was let go from his gig from the fast food joint is unclear, but authorities say within 24 hours, Morris returned to the Taco Bell on Gest Road and did the unthinkable to his former manager Ryan Johnson.
Johnson, a beloved father of seven, was on a break when Morris allegedly shot him in the Taco Bell parking lot. Prosecutors say Morris left him there to die, and when cops responded to a call of shots fired, they found Johnson with multiple gunshot wounds.
He died at the scene.
Johnson’s aunt, Ebony Denton, told WCPO 9 her nephew “loved to be there for everybody. He would give you the shirt off his back.” She added how the 32-year-old “always [had] that big old cheesy smile. That’s how I remember him.”
Assistant Prosecutor David Hickenloope called Johnson’s death “senseless,” according to local news channel WXIX.
Morris was arrested on Oct. 15 and charged with murder. The state requested a $2 million dollar bond, but Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Tyrone Yates set it for $500,000— which seemingly frustrated Johnson’s family. “He killed my grandson,” Johnson’s grandmother told the judge directly during the hearing. “He doesn’t need to be out! He took a life.”
Judge Yates said if Morris was released — only after paying the $500,000 in full, not the typical 10% — he would be under 24/7 monitoring.
“Prosecutors don’t set the bonds. Judges set the bail amount,” Judge Yates told FOX 19. “It is important to examine all of the facts and circumstances of every case in making a bond or bail decision.”
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