Woman accused of shooting 4-year-old dead claims it was ‘firearm safety’ lesson
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A Tennessee woman fatally shot a “scared” 4-year-old girl — then claimed to cops she was only trying to give the child a “gun safety lesson,” authorities say.
The suspect had allegedly hit the tot with a sandal right before for failing to wake the woman up and eating food without permission.
Breanna Runions, 25, was charged with murder and aggravated child abuse after allegedly pushing the loaded gun into little Evangaline Gunter’s chest and pulling the trigger at a home in Rockwood on Sunday, WBIR reported.
Runions, who was not the child’s mother, initially tried claiming to officers that she’d taken the magazine out of her 9mm handgun in the moments before giving the so-called firearm lesson, according to the arrest affidavit.
“Runions related that she th...
