Straight out of ‘Horrible Bosses’: Tech CEO millionaire “shot four times, stabbed seven” by exploited employees

Three of the four people charged in the kidnapping and ghastly killing of tech CEO millionaire and marijuana entrepreneur Tushab Atre have now been convicted. On Wednesday, a jury in Santa Cruz, California, found 25-year-old Kaleb Charters guilty on all counts.

Earlier this year, his brother-in-law, Stephen Nicholas “Nic” Lindsay, and brother, Kurtis Charters, were found guilty on the same charges of murder, kidnapping, burglary, carjacking, and robbery. They were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The trial of Joshua Camps, who is accused of the actual killing of Atre when he shot him multiply times, was put on pause until a verdict was reached in Kaleb’s trial reports KRON 4.

Tushab Atre: a person straight out of ‘Horrible Bosses’

The prosecution laid out that the motive behind the defendants’ crime was Nic’s and Kaleb’s desire to humiliate their former employer and envy of the victim’s wealth. The two had worked for Atre on his cannabis farm in the summer of 2019, a couple months before the fatal kidnapping took place.

Atre had promised to pay them $200 a day, planting marijuana plants from dawn to dusk. However, Kaleb said that after they had already planted hundreds of plants, “Tushar was flipping out” because they had lost the keys to a truck on the farm.

He threatened to cancel their checks, which he did. However, he then told them to do 500 pushups if they wanted to get paid saying, “you guys are in the army.” They are both former members of the National Guard.

This abusive behavior towards employees was not a one-off thing. It was revealed during the trial that Atre fostered a hostile, torturous, and toxic work environment.

Atre would often withhold or bounce employees’ paychecks and vindictively fire anyone who he felt had disrespected him. It came out in testimony during the trial that he had made employees so disgruntled that they had “joked” behind Atre’s back about robbing or hurting him.

A crime that went sideways

The four men’s intention when they carried out their crime on 1 October, 2019, had not been to kill Atre. They originally only wanted to make him suffer and steal a large sum of money that they believed the millionaire had stashed in his house.

However, during the kidnapping, he briefly escaped but was quickly tackled by Lindsey and then Camps repeatedly stabbed him. Camps would later use an AR-15 rifle to shoot Atre at his farm out of view of the others as an act of “mercy” as he “knew [Atre] was going to die, bleed out,” from one of the knife wounds to his neck.

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