At the same time, 57-year-old former U.S. Marine Corps soldier and World War II veteran George Pfeil, a retired New York City officer (1946–1973) and the Seminole County reserve deputy sheriff (1973–1977), entered the store.

At the trial, Halsell and Baldree testified that after Pfeil's murder, Sims bragged that he had "killed him with one bullet".

Robinson's whereabouts were discovered and he was arrested on June 8, 1983, when he was identified for shooting and seriously wounding two FBI agents, Thomas Sobolewski and Dennis Wicklein, five days earlier.

[2] In 1999, convicted killer Allen Lee Davis was executed in Florida by the routine method of the electric chair.

During his execution, blood began rapidly pouring out of his nose, and witnesses reported that Davis was still alive after the electrocution stopped.

[6] A week before his scheduled execution, Sims challenged the use of lethal injection, but his appeals were denied.