On March 10, 2009, 28-year-old Michael Kenneth McLendon shot sixteen people, ten fatally, between the communities of Kinston, Samson, and Geneva, Alabama, United States. McLendon's spree is the deadliest mass murder in Alabama's history, and it also holds the record for the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in Alabama's history. It surpassed the Will Reynolds incident in which formerly held the record by three fatalities. McLendon first killed his mother and subsequently burned down her house in the town of Kinston. Traveling to Samson, he killed his maternal grandmother, uncle, two cousins, and others, and wounded six. When law enforcement reached him, McLendon committed suicide. He was said to have been depressed about lack of work; in a note he said that his mother's family was not giving him or his mother enough support.