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.

  • pulaskiwasright
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    1 year ago

    Conservatives are the reason she was allowed to have guns.

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      1 year ago

      Will you liberals shut the fuck up about the fucking conservatives for a second? Not everything is about mUh CoNsErVaTiVeS and politics. Who is to say she legally obtained the firearm huh? The article doesn’t even say what kind of firearm it is, for all we know it could be a 3d printed ghost gun?

      I swear every bit of news I see, liberals use it as an excuse to removed about conservatives. A child died by first degree murder from a caretaker because of the awful CPS that we have, guns are not the focal point here buddy.

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        1 year ago

        Your comment is so absurd that I thought it was satirical at first.

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          1 year ago

          Half the posts here are satirical as well. A deranged individual gets custody of children not hers and everyone screeches “gUnZ!” like a bag of cats. What do you honestly think would have happened had she not had a gun? Tell me!

          Do you honestly think the situation where she didn’t have a gun would have been better than the situation where the kids never went to a home where the custodians were clearly not fit to have custody of CPS children?