“The Man” sticks back

From sag-bellied franchise owners to hair-transplanted, whoremongering media execs, corporate America may have a new hero. Two years ago, Rolandas Milinavicius moved from his native Lithuania to East Point, Georgia, to live the American Dream and, in the process, stumbled upon a solution to the burden of handling repeated employee requests for a raise: kill them.

According to police, the two employees Milinavicius had hired to help him sell American cars to buyers in Lithuania were “not really happy about the pay.” They hounded him for a rate hike. Milinavicius instead served up severance through the barrel of a handgun.

Milinavicius’s wife, having had trouble contacting her husband and concerned for his well-being, visited his shop. Surprised to find it locked up during business hours, she let herself in and discovered the bullet-riddled corpse of 28-year-old Martynas Simokaitis. She fled and called police, who found the 25-year-old Inga Contreras. Contreras had been let go with the same weapon. Milinavicius turned himself in to police two days later. He told police he’d been “under a lot of stress.”

by Scott Saxon