"Around 3 a.m. on a Tuesday in 2019, several assailants broke into the executive's coastal estate on Pleasure Point Drive, a scenic stretch of land lined with multimillion-dollar homes overlooking the ocean. Mere hours after Atre stepped into a white BMW, his body was discovered at one of his rural properties in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He had been stabbed and kidnapped and then shot and left for dead, the outlet reported."
"Atre, who was 50 years old at the time of his killing, was the founder and CEO of a corporate marketing firm, AtreNet, and Interstitial Systems, a cannabis company with a marijuana farm and laboratory in the Santa Cruz region. Earlier this year, Kurtis Charters and Stephen Nicholas Lindsay were sentenced to life in prison without parole. This week, trials continued for another suspect, former employee Kaleb Charters."
"Sam Borghese, another one of Atre's former employees, testified that his multimillionaire boss had created a hostile, fear-based work environment. Though Borghese reportedly had a friendly relationship with Atre, he said Atre would also withhold his employees' paychecks, yell at them and fire them if he felt disrespected. Borghese also told the court that Lindsay and Kaleb Charters performed manual labor on Atre's farm from sunrise to sunset for nearly two weeks, KRON-TV said."
Six years after the 2019 killing of tech CEO Tushar Atre, a third suspect, former employee Kaleb Charters, faces trial while a fourth suspect is scheduled to appear in November. Assailants broke into Atre's Pleasure Point Drive estate; his body was later found at a rural Santa Cruz Mountains property, stabbed, kidnapped and shot. Atre, 50, founded AtreNet and Interstitial Systems, a cannabis company with a farm and laboratory. Two men have already received life sentences without parole. Witnesses describe a hostile, fear-based workplace with withheld pay, yelling, firings and long manual labor shifts.
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