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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.
You’re right, someone isn’t a responsible gun owner.
Someone isn’t a responsible car driver.
Someone isn’t responsible with alcohol.
Someone isn’t responsible with the internet, spreading misinformation online.
What do you suppose we do with these people? Do you need a license to drink? A license to free speech? Maybe we should just mercy kill anyone who isn’t a 100% responsible human being since we can’t allow them to have anything due to the fact that pretty much anything you can do can potentially impede on other people’s freedoms if done in excess or unresponsibly.
Yes, people make mistakes. This wasn’t a mistake and it has nothing to do with an irresponsible gun owner. Irresponsible gun owners leave firearms where anyone can get them, they flag people down by accident because they don’t know proper gun etiquette.
It doesn’t take room temperature IQ to understand you shouldn’t press a firearm against anyone’s chest under any circumstances other than with intent to take one’s life.