Molson Coors starts fund for shooting victims' families, donates $500K

Molson Coors is honoring its employees who lost their lives in Wednesday's shooting with the Miller Valley Survivors Fund.

MILWAUKEE — Molson Coors Beverage Co. (NYSE: TAP) is honoring its employees who lost their lives in Wednesday's shooting with the Miller Valley Survivors Fund.

The brewer, which recently relocated from Denver to Chicago and Milwaukee, announced that it started the fund by giving a $500,000 donation. Molson Coors invited the public to contribute through a GoFundMe webpage. As of Monday morning at 6:30 a.m. MST, the page showed a total of $701,681 in contributions.

The shooting left electrician Dale Hudson, machinist Dana Walk and powerhouse operators Gene Levshetz, Jesse Valle Jr. and Trevor Wetselaar deceased. The alleged gunman, 51-year-old Anthony Ferrill, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police say the shooting was reported just after 2 p.m. Wednesday at Molson Coors’ Milwaukee plant. Officials have not yet named a motive for the killings.

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