Police are investigating the fatal shooting of Caitlyn Kaufman, a Chicora native, who, was killed in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday on her way to St. Thomas West Hospital where she worked as a nurse.

Chicora native Caitlyn Marie Kaufman, 26, was shot and killed Thursday evening while driving to work at St. Thomas West Hospital in Nashville, Tenn.

Gunshots were fired into the Mazda CX-5 SUV Kaufman was driving on Interstate 440 west while she was on her way to the hospital where she worked as a nurse, Metropolitan Nashville Police said in a news report.

Her shift at the hospital was to have begun at 7 p.m. Detectives believe she was running on time, and think the gunfire likely occurred between 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

The vehicle came to rest on the right shoulder of the road against the guardrail between the Hillsboro Pike and West End Avenue exits. A Metro Parks Precinct officer stopped to check on the vehicle at 8:52 p.m., discovered that Kaufman had been shot, and called for assistance from Midtown Hills Precinct officers. Kaufman died at the scene, police said.

She graduated from Butler Senior High School in 2012. After high school, Kaufman earned bachelor’s degrees in 2016 from Clarion University of Pennsylvania in liberal studies and from California University of Pennsylvania in athletic training.

In 2018, she graduated from Butler County Community College with an associate of applied science degree in registered nursing.

This is a breaking news report— read more about Caitlyn in Friday’s Butler Eagle.

Caitlyn Marie Kaufman, a 26-year-old Nashville nurse, was fatally shot in Thursday on her way to work at a Nashville hospital. She was 2012 graduate Butler Senior High School.photo courtesy of family