When you hear the name Ronald Gene Simmons, the immediate thought is of the mass murderer that killed many people right here in the state we live in. However, there is more to the man than just being a killer, and the story behind those killings is interesting. Even though the dominant part of his life was taken up by the killings he did, there is also a part that many people have never even heard of. Ronald Gene Simmons was born on July 15, 1940, in the great city of Chicago, Illinois. He was born to Loretta and Williams Simmons. On January 31st, 1943, William Simmons died of a stroke, while Ronald was only three years old. His mother remarried to another man, William D. Griffen, who was a civil engineer for the U.S. Army Corps. Because of …show more content…
On the 28th of December, Ronald bought another gun from Walmart. He drove to a local law firm, in which he shot and killed the receptionist. Next on the list was the Taylor Oil Company. There, he shot and wounded the owner of the Sinclair Mini Mart, killed a local fireman and truck driver, and shot and missed another employee. He then proceeded to the mini-mart where he wounded two workers. The last place on his list was the Motor Freight Company he worked at, where he wounded his former supervisor, and took a worker at gunpoint and made her call the police saying “I’ve come to do what I wanted to do. It’s all over now. I’ve gotten everybody who wanted to hurt me”. (Ronald Gene Simmons). We now see that this was probably pre-meditated, that he had an agenda on his mind, with some people just getting in the way. This was the end of the killing spree of Ronald Gene …show more content…
He also tried to reach for a deputy’s gun, in which he again was sentenced to death by lethal injection. Simmons kept waiving his rights to appeal, to try to get away with being “insane”. This shows that he was for sure competent enough to think about those things, so what exactly was wrong with this man? Then finally in 1990, with Simmons accepting his fate, Bill Clinton signed his death warrant for June 25, 1990. This was the fastest sentence to death ever since the death penalty was put into