Complex sentence: Prompted by Shockley and Thompson, Cretzer shot the hostages at very close range, one of the guards, William Miller, succumbed to his injuries while the second guard, Harold Stites, was also killed at the cellhouse.
Split into simpler sentences: Prompted by Shockley and Thompson, Cretzer shot the hostages at very close range. One of the guards, William Miller, succumbed to his injuries while the second guard, Harold Stites, was also killed at the cellhouse.