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On May 31, 2013, it was discovered that Swindol had a firearm in his locked car parked in Aurora’s exposed parking lot (supposedly by a co-employee who reported him to management). According to Swindol, he was called into a meeting with the HR director and others (with Lowndes County Sheriff’s Deputies standing at the door of the meeting room) and fired. He was told to get off Aurora’s premises. He was then “escorted” to his vehicle by the deputies and departed. After his departure, Swindol learned that a plant-wide meeting had been called and he had been declared a “security risk” and if seen on Aurora’s premises the employees were told to call 911. The suit alleged that if the employees did not do so they would be fired as well. Swindol, through his attorney, David Butts, filed suit against Aurora in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi for wrongful discharge and slander.