Connie Patrick

Connie Patrick, a 72-year-old White woman, was killed in a violent attack inside a home in Mabank, Texas, in the pre-dawn hours of Friday, October 17, 2025. The incident, which took the lives of two other family members and left two more seriously injured, unfolded in the Cedar Creek Cove subdivision, a normally quiet community near Cedar Creek Lake.

Henderson County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to a residence on Taos Drive around 2:30 a.m. following a 911 call. Inside the home, they discovered a horrific scene with multiple victims. Connie Patrick and her niece, 51-year-old Kimberly Simpson, had both sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Another relative, 57-year-old Ronny Hammonds, was found to have suffered a combination of a gunshot wound, blunt force trauma, and multiple stab wounds. Patrick and Hammonds were pronounced dead at the scene, while Simpson was transported to UT Health Cedar Creek Lake hospital in Gun Barrel City, where she was also pronounced deceased.

Two other men were found injured inside the home. Henry Hopgood, 70, and Colton Reid, 24, were both transported to UT Health Hospital in Tyler for treatment. Hopgood was initially listed in critical condition, while Reid was in stable condition. The attack was a deeply personal tragedy, targeting multiple members of the same family in a concentrated burst of violence.

Authorities quickly identified the suspect as 29-year-old Christopher Kyle Reid Jr. of Hubbard, who was Connie Patrick's nephew. After fleeing the scene on Taos Drive, Reid drove his 2003 Dodge Caravan about 35 miles west to the city of Ennis. At approximately 5 a.m., he crashed the minivan into the southwest entrance of a Buc-ee's convenience store, striking and injuring a woman who was a customer inside. After the van came to a stop, Reid shot himself in the head. He was transported to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas in critical condition.

The investigation was a multi-agency effort involving the Henderson County Sheriff's Office, the Texas Rangers, the Henderson County District Attorney’s Office, and the Ennis Police Department. While investigators worked to piece together the events, the community was left reeling from the loss of three of its members.

On Monday, October 27, 2025, ten days after the attack, Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse announced that Christopher Kyle Reid Jr. had died in the hospital from his self-inflicted gunshot wound. With his death, the case was considered closed, as the primary suspect was deceased. In the same announcement, the sheriff’s office provided an update on the two surviving victims. Colton Reid, the suspect’s brother, had been released from the hospital and was recovering at home. Henry Hopgood, while still hospitalized, had improved from critical condition and was reported to be awake and responsive. The case stands as a solved triple homicide.