Police in Michigan said they’re looking into whether the stabbing of a manufacturing company’s president during a meeting this week may have been motivated by the recent killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in New York.
A 32-year-old employee was taken into custody on aggravated assault charges after allegedly stabbing the president of Anderson Express Inc. on Tuesday in Muskegon, Michigan, police said in a release .
“We haven’t ruled out [a] copycat motive in regards to this,” Fruitport Police Deputy Chief Greg Poulson told News 8 of the violence potentially being connected to the fatal shooting in New York. “I think that comes to everyone’s mind at this time.”
An employee at Anderson Express in Muskegon, Michigan, is accused of stabbing the company’s president during a staff meeting on Tuesday.
Police said the employee, identified by local news media as Nathan Mahoney, stabbed company president Erik Denslow in the side with a knife just before 9:30 a.m. He then fled the business in a car but was tracked down and stopped by police just minutes later.