Simmons walked into a law office and killed 24-year-old receptionist Kathy Kendrick; he had been infatuated with her, but she had rejected him. He next went to an oil company office where he shot dead 33-year-old J.D. Chaffin and wounded owner Rusty Taylor. Simmons then drove on to a convenience store where he had previously worked, shooting and wounding two more people. Afterwards he went to the office of the Woodline Motor Freight Company where he shot and wounded a woman. Simmons then simply sat in the office and chatted with one of the secretaries while waiting for the police. In the week before Simmons killed 14 members of his family in two events. (28 December 1987)
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Monday 6th of December 1943 (-) — Madge Knight dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion. On the night of 18 November 18 Knight's screams woke her husband and sister in their home. They discovered Knight writhing in pain in her bed with her skin peeling off her back under her bedclothes. A doctor that was called identified the wounds as some form of burn and gave Knight morphine. She died from toxaemia.