Tracy Michelle White, 34, was killed on March 10, 2009, on the front porch of her father’s home in Samson, Alabama. A University of Alabama graduate with a degree in criminal law, she served as magistrate for the City of Samson and was known to family by the nickname Tator. She was shot during a violent spree carried out that day by her 28-year-old cousin Michael Kenneth McLendon.

McLendon’s rampage began earlier when he killed his mother and set their Kinston home on fire, then continued in Samson where he fatally shot Tracy, her 15-year-old son Dean James Wise, her 55-year-old father James Alfred White, neighbor Andrea Dawn Myers and Myers’s 18-month-old daughter Corinne Gracy Myers. He went on to kill a total of ten people and wound six others while shooting at people and businesses before a final confrontation in Geneva, where he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after exchanging fire with law enforcement. Investigators recovered a note in which McLendon wrote about feeling unsupported by his mother’s family and being depressed about lack of work; he was armed with multiple rifles, a shotgun and a pistol.

Anyone who knew Tracy, her family, or witnessed events in Samson or Geneva that day is asked to come forward with information.