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Fired Taco Bell employee allegedly returns to gun down his father — was a father of 7: ‘Senseless’
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…
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Fired Taco Bell employee allegedly returns to gun down his father — was a father of 7: ‘Senseless’
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Mikella Schuettler
Published Oct. 17, 2025, 10:36 a.m. ET
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.”
3 Victim Ryan Johnson had seven kids, family members said. Courtesy family
It was not immediately clear why Morris was fired the day before the shooting.
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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.
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