Rick Robbins

In the spring of 1996, a tragedy unfolded in Jackson, Mississippi, forever marking the community and the city's fire department. On April 24th, Rick Robbins, a 47-year-old white male serving as a District Chief, was killed in a violent rampage carried out by one of his own firefighters. The day began with a domestic dispute that escalated into a harbinger of the greater tragedy to come. Firefighter Kenneth Tornes went to the home of his estranged wife, 42-year-old Glenda Tornes, where he fatally ...