Car Dealer Shot 2 employees because they asked for raises

[BarryH]

Wow!

 

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291489,00.html

 

Cops: Atlanta Car Dealer Murdered 2 Employees Because They Kept Asking for Raises

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

 

EAST POINT, Ga. — The owner of a car dealership has been accused of killing two employees because they kept asking for pay raises.

 

Rolandas Milinavicius has been charged with two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of Inga Contreras, 25, and Martynas Simokaitis, 28.

 

All three are from the eastern European nation of Lithuania but had been living in Atlanta, authorities said.

 

Milinavicius, who was having financial problems, told police he shot the two Thursday after they kept asking for more pay, said police in East Point, which is just outside Atlanta.

 

"He told us that he was under a lot of stress," East Point police Capt. Russell Popham said. "Unfortunately, he decided to take his anger out with violence."

 

Milinavicius, who had been living in Alpharetta, started RM Auto International two years ago, hoping to meet the demand for American cars in Lithuania. He began shipping cars and later hired the two victims as his only employees.

 

Milinavicius, 38, turned himself in two days after the shootings and confessed to the killings, Popham said.

 

"As I understand, the employees were not really happy about the pay, and they had questioned him about it over the course of time," Popham said. "That morning he said he just snapped."

 

Contreras and Simokaitis were cremated and an informal memorial service was held at Simokaitis' cousin's apartment over the weekend. The remains were to be flown to Lithuania on Tuesday.

 

"It doesn't make any sense," the cousin, Jaunius Simokaitis, of Fayetteville, said Monday. "If he was having money problems, these two would have been the ones to help him get out of debt. They would have helped him make that money."

[Eric_Smith]

This is the dumbest thin I have ever herd.

[spaceace12]

good thing I am union and don't have to ask for raises, I get a raise every year on my anniversary date. Which is tomorrow! yeah. I get paid 8.75 an hour then!

[307]

good thing I am union and don't have to ask for raises, I get a raise every year on my anniversary date. Which is tomorrow! yeah. I get paid 8.75 an hour then!

Annual raises are awesome!

 

This guy is nuts. I've wanted to go postal on employees before though... he's livin' the dream!

[FLIPDUDE]

That's probably up on the list of most pointless murders ever.

 

 

I feel sorry for those two poor people.

[Scaparri]

People are freakin' crazy these days!

 

Assuming you're crazy enough to carry a gun with the possible intention of killing somebody, how do you not at some point (like the point where you actually start to point the gun or something) realize that you are about to kill somebody for asking for a raise. How does common sense and human emotion not prevail in that situation? It blows my mind. I know worse crap probably happens, but wow.

[Robgraves]

worst i ever did was chase an ex employee out with a golf club....

 

good times.

 

though i once had an employer who used the phrase "ill stab you" as a form of punctuation.

 

oddly enough he was one of the better bosses i have had.....................

 

 

and people wonder why i am for the most part self employed.

[verticalzero]

Such a waste of 2 lives just for asking what is right.

 

That's what happens when people love and carry guns. I hope the person who did it sits in "Old Sparky" chair and have a slow death via the National Grid supply.

[FlyingScooter]

i had a boss go nuts on qualudes once. He didn't go after us though. he took it out on a 5 ton crane hook. I can honestly say I've seen such nauked hands before or since.

 

yeah, people are nuts.