In late summer 2014, 65-year-old Bobby Wayne Wood was shot and killed while working as a security guard at the John D. Hollingsworth on Wheels textile factory in Greenville, South Carolina. A U.S. Marine veteran of the Vietnam War, Wood had been employed at the plant for 47 years. His colleague, 53-year-old Richard Thomas Ellison, was killed alongside him on the morning of Friday, August 29, 2014.

Authorities say 23-year-old Evan Casey Bennett, who had reportedly been seen observing the factory guards, carried out the shootings. In the days that followed, Bennett fatally shot his 58-year-old stepfather, Gregory Jones, and later drove to the Greenville County Law Enforcement Center, where he wounded a police officer, shattered windows, and then died by a self-inflicted gunshot in the parking lot. Investigators concluded Bennett was responsible for the three murders and the officer’s wounding. Wood is survived by four daughters and seven grandchildren.