A disgruntled Taco Bell employee returned to his old workplace to gun down his manager, a father of seven, a day after he was fired, according to authorities.
Jonathan Morris, 21, shot manager Ryan Johnson in the parking lot of a Cincinnati Taco Bell in August, leaving the family man to die in the parking lot, prosecutors said.
“They are devastated by this,” Assistant Prosecutor David Hickenlooper said in court on Thursday of the murdered manager’s large family, according to WXIX. “It was senseless.”
It was not immediately clear why Morris was fired the day before the shooting.
But the manager was on a break when he was shot, family members told WCPO.
Responding cops found Johnson in the Taco Bell parking lot just after midnight with multiple gunshot wounds.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Hickenlooper requested the judge set bail for $2 million, with the murdered manager’s family also begging for him to be kept behind bars without bail.
Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Tyrone Yates set Morris’ bail for $500,000, saying he would be monitored 24/7 if ever released.
Morris lives with his father and has a 1-year-old son, his public defender told the court.