According to authorities, Swan began working at Kings Bay in September 1990 after coming from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire. Fourtunia was an employee in Shop 38 and he reported in July 1997 and voluntarily retired in July 2010.
Lueders said Fourtunia held Swan and another supervisor responsible for losing his job and Fortunia made several death threats in the past to Swan for ruining his career.
In 2005, Fourtunia was served with an injunction for protection in divorcing his wife in 2005 and arrested for contempt of court the same year. He was taken into custody under the Baker Act in 2007 for threatening to kill himself and police found notes at the scene indicating that Fortunia was suicidal for some time now, Lueders said.
Fourtunia happened to see Swan at a Yulee Walmart on Tuesday night and something snapped, Lueders said. Officers said surveillance showed Foutunia intentionally hitting Swan with his car then getting out of the vehicle and pummeling him on the ground. Swan died of his injuries a short time later at the hospital.
Fourtunia left the scene and went to his home on Arrigo Boulevard in Fernandina Beach. Witnesses followed him to his home and called police. Officers found a makeshift bomb that did not detonate and Fourtunia later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Kings Bay released the following statement on Swan: "He was greatly admired throughout the entire command and a well respected leader here. His passing has shocked and impacted everyone here and our thoughts and prayers go out to his family Friends and coworkers," said Mark Turney, public affairs officer for Trident Refit Facility at Kings Bay.
David Lee, a friend and neighbor of Swan, remembered him as an "excellent family person" who "was always out there with his kids."
"I can't even fathom why someone would do this to him," Lee said.
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