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Ferrill was an employee of the Molson Coors Brewery Company. Various reports said that Ferrill was fired on the day of the shooting. A statement on the shooting from Molson Coors referred to him as an “active employee.”

Anthony Ferrill, identified as the gunman, worked at the MillerCoors brewery, and later at the Molson Coors brewery, for more than 20 years, as an electrician. He was listed on an IBEW Local 494 Facebook page post in September 2018 as one of several employees being honored by the union for reaching a milestone at the brewery. He had worked there for 20 years at the time, according to the post. The union has not commented on the shooting.

Digital journalist Matthew Keys reported 5:22 p.m. local time that authorities had identified Anthony Ferrill as the suspect and that a search warrant was being executed at his home. Online records show that Ferrill lived along West Potomac Avenue in a home with three bedrooms and one bathroom, around five miles northwest of the brewery. Online records showed that the family lived there since 2004. The Journal Sentinel reports that the house was bought with the help of a Veteran’s Administration loan. Ferrill was a veteran of the United States Coast Guard, serving between 1987 and 1991 when he was honorably discharged.

Ferrill was married and had children, including a son and two daughters, according to his wife’s now-deleted Facebook profile. A Facebook page or social media belonging to Ferrill could not immediately be found by Heavy.

On her various social media pages, which have now been deleted, Ferrill’s wife posted photos of her family and expressing liberal political views. In July 2019, Ferrill’s wife attended a speech by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren at South Division High School Gym in Milwaukee. Following the speech, Ferrill’s wife took a photo with the Massachusetts senator.

The Journal Sentinel reports that one of the victims was a fellow electrician at the brewery who Ferrill frequently clashed with. A friend of Ferrill’s, who was not named, told the newspaper that the issue arose because Ferrill was accused of watching movies on his phone during work hours. The pair had also accused the other of tampering with each other’s tools and going into each other’s offices.

Ferrill had also told a co-worker that he believed brewery employees were coming into his home and bugging his computer. That friend said, “I was, are you serious, Anthony? What? We all kind of joked about it, saying we should maybe get him an aluminum hat. Things just started getting weird. But he was dead serious about it.” In addition, a friend said that Ferrill felt as though he was being racially discriminated by Molson Coors.

In one lawsuit, from February 2015, Ferrill and his wife are listed as co-plaintiffs along with the MillerCoors LLC Health Benefits Program. The lawsuit was filed against the American Family Mutual Insurance Company. Details of that case were not immediately available.

Ferrill sued the insurance company and another individual along with his wife and his insurance company in 2013. Details of that case were also not available. Records show he was the defendant in two lawsuits filed in 2005 by the Medical College of Wisconsin, which is affiliated with the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center. Both of those small claims court cases appear to deal with medical billing.