On Sunday (August 27), the Rockwood (TN) Police Department arrested a 25-year-old woman named Breanna Gayle Devall Runions after she shot and killed a 4-year-old girl, Evangeline Gunter, with a 9 mm handgun in the chest at point-blank range. Runions claims she was teaching her about gun safety.
Police charged her with one count of first-degree felony murder and one count of aggravated child abuse and she was transferred to Roane County Jail, where she was being held on a $1.5 million bond. The investigation is ongoing as agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation work alongside the police.