6 Dead, Including Gunman, After Molson Coors Facility Shooting In Milwaukee
Five people were killed after a gunman opened fire at the Molson Coors brewing facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Wednesday afternoon.
The gunman, a 51-year-old male, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales said a news conference Wednesday night.
The gunman was an active employee at the company, Molson Coors CEO Gavin Hattersley said in a companywide email.
“This is a tragic day for our city, for our state,” Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said at the news conference. “Six families are grieving and will be grieving because of this horrific act of this individual.”
Milwaukee police responded to a call of a shooting at the Molson Coors brewing facility at 2:08 p.m. Officers found the gunman dead, then located five other bodies.
All five of the victims were employees of Molson Coors, according to Morales. The names of victims were not being released until families could be notified.
The company sent an email to employees at 2:19 p.m., alerting them to an active shooter in or near the facility’s south packaging building, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and WISN-TV reported.
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes said that the Molson Coors shooting marked the “11th mass shooting in our state since 2004.”
Barrett called the incident a “horrific shooting” that had “multiple fatalities” at a news conference around 4:30 p.m. local time.
“It is a horrible, horrible day for the employees here,” Barrett said. “There are multiple people who have died, I believe including the shooter.”
Molson Coors Beverage Co. is the parent company of Molson Coors, which was known as MillerCoors until recently.
This is the 45th mass shooting in the U.S. so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that defines mass shootings as those that leave at least four dead or wounded.
