According to investigators, a 50-year-old man in Arizona fatally beat a coworker to death in a company cafeteria with a baseball bat.
Derrick Simmons, 50, was arrested on February 18 in Chandler, Arizona, for the murder of one of his coworkers and the attempted murder of another at the Intel chip factory.
Chandler police officers arrested Simmons and took him to a detention center, where he is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder and aggravated assault.
According to court documents, Simmons reportedly attacked people in the cafeteria at the Intel Ocotillo Campus at 6:15 a.m. on Saturday.
One of the victims was discovered dead in the facility’s cafeteria, with obvious signs of blunt-force trauma. Another victim was found and sent to the hospital to be treated for his injuries.
Simmons allegedly went over to a table where one of the employees was sitting and whacked him over the head three times with a baseball bat after the night shift workers had left.
According to court filings, Simmons used the bat to hit another employee in the back of the head when the victim came to the aid of his colleague and confronted Simmons.
After being seen outside the premises with two bags, the perpetrator was apprehended.
Linda Qian, a spokeswoman for Intel Arizona, published a statement confirming the incident. Police had responded, she claimed, and were aiding the company’s security team with the inquiry.
According to authorities, the deceased victim was identified as Dan Foster, 49, and the injured colleague was Jaron Williams, 27.
Simmons is being held on a $1 million cash bond.
According to the court records, this is not Simmons’ first run-in with the law. The suspect has a criminal past and was previously convicted of aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon, according to available records.