On April 24, 1996, Jackson, Mississippi lost a senior fire official during a deadly rampage that began with a domestic killing. District Chief Rick Robbins, 47, was one of four supervisors shot and killed inside the Jackson Fire Department’s central station after firefighter Kenneth Tornes first fatally shot his estranged wife, 42-year-old Glenda Tornes, at her home earlier that day. Neighbors reported hearing gunfire and saw Tornes cleaning blood in the carport before he drove to the station armed with multiple firearms including a rifle.

At the station Tornes moved through the building, bypassed some colleagues and announced he intended to blow the place up, then opened fire. Along with Robbins, Captains Merideth Don Moree, 49, Dwight Craft, 48, and Stanley C. Adams, 45, were killed; two other officials were wounded and survived. Tornes fled, led police on a high-speed chase to Ridgeland, wounded an officer in a final shootout and was shot in the eye before being taken into custody.

Tornes was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in April 1998; he also received a life term for the murder of Glenda Tornes. He died on April 9, 2000, on death row from a blood clot. Investigators later linked him to an unrelated 1994 triple homicide, but he was never tried for those killings.