Court indicts 2 men in shooting death of Caitlyn Kaufman
This is a breaking news report — subscribe online or print to read the full article in Sunday's Butler Eagle.Two men were indicted in Tennessee on first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of Chicora native Caitlyn Kaufman.James Edward Cowan, 28, and Devaunte Louis Hill, 20, both face a single count of first-degree premeditated murder in what investigators have called a road rage-related shooting.The indictment, filed Wednesday in Davidson County, Tenn., shows a grand jury found the two men “unlawfully, intentionally and with premeditation” shot and killed Kaufman.A witness and investigators previously said in a hearing before a Tennessee court in January that Kaufman, 26, a 2012 Butler Area High School graduate, was driving on Interstate 440 in Nashville at around 6:30 p.m. Dec. 3 when she was shot and killed. Kaufman, an intensive care nurse at St. Thomas West Hospital, was on her way to work.A third suspect in the case, Dimeneshia Carter, 20, is charged as being an accessory to the murder after the fact, which police allege stems from her harboring Cowan, her boyfriend. She has not been indicted, but her case has been bound over to the grand jury.
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