 About 31.6% of families and 32.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 44.7% of those under age 18 and 19.4% of those age 65 or over.On March 10, 2009, in the Alabama towns of Kinston, Samson and Geneva, Michael McLendon killed ten people and wounded six others in a shooting rampage before committing suicide.In response, troops from nearby Fort Rucker were deployed to the streets of Samson where they manned barricades and guarded a makeshift morgue.