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Captain Stanley C. Adams, 45, was one of four supervisors killed in a workplace attack at the central fire station in Jackson, Mississippi, on April 24, 1996. The rampage began earlier that day when firefighter Kenneth Tornes fatally shot his estranged wife, Glenda Tornes, at her home. Tornes then went to the firehouse armed with a rifle, warned a coworker to get back, and moved through the offices targeting his superiors. Captain Adams, Captain Merideth Moree, District Chief Dwight Craft and District Chief Rick Robbins were all shot and killed; two other people were wounded.

Tornes fled, led police on a high-speed chase to Ridgeland, engaged officers in a shootout in a shopping-center parking lot, wounded an officer, and was shot in the left eye before being taken into custody. If anyone knew Captain Adams or has information about the station environment or tensions before April 24, 1996, please share what you know.