Warning: Article has detailed accounts of the shooting

Breanna Gayle Devall Runions, 25, was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in the death of Evangaline Gunter.

The child’s parents, Adam and Josie Gunter, told ABC affiliate WATE that Evangaline had been in temporary custody at a home in Rockwood, which Runions shared with girlfriend Christina Daniels and another child, a 7-year-old girl.

Before the shooting, Evangaline and the older girl were being punished that morning by Runions for not waking up the women and for eating Daniels’ food without permission, according to the warrant and a statement from Russell Johnson, district attorney general for Tennessee’s 9th Judicial District. Runions struck both girls with a sandal before forcing them to stand in different corners of the women’s bedroom, authorities said the older girl told them.

After the shooting, the women drove Evangaline to a nearby Walmart location to meet an ambulance, Roane County Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas Boduch told the Roane County News, and the vehicle transported the girl to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. Boduch could not immediately be reached by HuffPost.

  • @SCB
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    1 year ago

    She took out the magazine, so it’s quite arguable that she’s just a fucking idiot and did not intent to kill the child. That being the case would make this a “responsible gun owner” discussion.

    • @jj4211
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      31 year ago

      Also possible she is lying to try to pretend she made a mistake.

      • @SCB
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        21 year ago

        Witnesses stated she removed the mag.

    • @havokdj
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      21 year ago

      She didn’t rack the chamber. You can argue that she intentionally made it look like an accident.

      • @[email protected]
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        01 year ago

        You can also argue that it genuinely was an accident (albeit one that very much could have been anticipated and prevented).

        • @havokdj
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          11 year ago

          It wasn’t an accident because she intentionally put a gun against a child’s chest. That isn’t an accident.