‘Lone wolf’ broke news of gunman’s identity

IOWA CITY, IOWA » When a local newspaper reported the identity of the gunman in Milwaukee’s mass shooting, it came many hours after that news was broken on Twitter by a self-employed and formerly imprisoned journalist working from his bedroom in California. Matthew Keys was the first to report that 51-yearold Anthony Ferrill was the Molson Coors employee who shot and killed five co-workers Wednesday before killing himself.

Keys has been working to rebuild a once-promising career in journalism that has been marred by employment disputes and a criminal conviction. He completed a two-year prison sentence in 2018 for his role in a conspiracy to hack the Los Angeles Times website.