Antoine Autry was fatally stabbed at an Anheuser-Busch brewery on his first day of work. His family has filed a lawsuit claiming inadequate security contributed to his death.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Almost a year after 22-year-old Antoine Autry was killed at an Anheuser-Busch brewery in Jacksonville, his family is suing the company over what they allege were security failures at the facility.
The wrongful-death lawsuit was filed Oct. 1, 2026.
The lawsuit alleges Anheuser-Busch failed to take reasonable steps to inspect, monitor or control people entering the brewery with knives or other weapons. The family also claims the company did not have sufficient security personnel available to respond to potentially dangerous situations.
The family further alleges that Autry did not receive emergency medical care quickly enough.
Brian Moore, an attorney with Morgan & Morgan who represents Autry’s family, said the lawsuit seeks to establish what happened and determine whether the stabbing could have been prevented.
Autry was killed Oct. 30, 2025, at the Anheuser-Busch facility on Busch Drive in Jacksonville. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said Autry and Jason Guthrie were contractors who were working at the plant for the first time that day.
JSO said officers were called to the brewery at about 4:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a stabbing. They found Autry suffering from a stab wound to his chest. He later died at a hospital.
Guthrie was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. He pleaded not guilty.
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The family’s lawsuit is a civil proceeding and is separate from the criminal case against Guthrie.
“The family still doesn’t know how this even could have happened,” Moore said. “So they first want to know how this happened, what could have been done to prevent this, so that this does not happen to anybody else.”
Moore said the case remains in its early stages and that Anheuser-Busch has not yet responded to the lawsuit.
“Typically, what happens next is Anheuser-Busch will answer the complaint. Then the parties will engage in a months-long discovery phase in which we will seek to uncover new evidence through written discovery and oral discovery for the taking of depositions,” Moore said.
Moore said Autry’s family is seeking changes that could help prevent a similar incident from happening to another worker.
“Antoine Autry did not know Guthrie. He was there on his first day on the job. He was trying to do right by himself and his family to have this job, and for somebody to do this to him with no altercation or thing being done by Mr. Autry to cause this from happening is what is so shocking and disgusting about what happened to him,” Moore said.
Autry’s family continues to grieve the loss of the 22-year-old, Moore said. He described Autry as optimistic about beginning his new job.
First Coast News contacted Anheuser-Busch for comment on the lawsuit but had not received a response at the time of publication.