Kimberly Simpson, 51, a White female, was killed in the early hours of October 17, 2025, when gunfire tore through a home in Mabank’s Cedar Creek Cove subdivision. Deputies with the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched around 2:30 a.m. to a residence on Taos Drive, where they found multiple victims; Simpson and two others—Connie Patrick, 72, and Ronny “Ronny/Rodney” Hammonds, 57—were declared dead, while two men were rushed to UT Health in Tyler, one in stable condition
and the other in critical condition. Authorities later specified the cause of injuries for the deceased: Simpson and Patrick suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and Hammonds sustained a gunshot wound, blunt force trauma, and multiple stab wounds.
Investigators named 29-year-old Christopher Kyle Reid Jr. of Hubbard as the suspect. After the Mabank shootings, Reid reportedly fled and, around 5 a.m., crashed a maroon Dodge Caravan into the entrance of a Buc-ee’s in Ennis, pinning a woman in her 30s against a display before shooting himself in the head. The pedestrian’s injuries were not life-threatening; Reid was taken to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas in critical condition, where he remained as of the latest updates from law enforcement.
Officials have not publicly confirmed the suspect’s relationship to those in the home, and the investigation involves multiple agencies, including the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office, Texas DPS Texas Rangers, the Henderson County District Attorney’s Office, and the Ennis Police Department. No arrest has been announced; authorities describe the case as an active, ongoing triple-homicide investigation centered on the identified suspect. Independent listings and memorial notices corroborate Simpson’s identity and date and place of death as October 17, 2025, in Mabank, Texas.
