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.
There is a serious issue with child abuse here.
But, if you can correctly guess the country where this occurred before reading the locale in the article, then it’s a telling point about how famous the idiots+guns connection is in exactly one affluent country while still being a tangent.
Was the gun bit, not obvious enough?
Just by reading some of the names I can guess which country it is.
I’m guessing Texas?
They haven’t gotten their way yet, I’d guess the country is USA USA USA
I’m unfortunately very familiar with this town. It’s an industrial wasteland with no real job market and drugs are rampant.
This story is unfortunately not at all surprising.
Don’t blame it on the town. It’s not a small town problem. It’s a USA problem.
Just providing context. Not “blaming it on the town.”
Yeah, we’re all aware. Thanks for your service it means so much on every single post like this.