Rockwood, TN (WOKI) A Rockwood woman is facing a murder charge after a four-year-old girl is shot and killed Sunday, August 27.
Arrest warrants obtained by our news partner WVLT show 25-year-old Breanna G. Devall Runions was charged after firing a loaded gun into the child’s chest. In the warrants, Runions claims that she was teaching the child about gun safety at the time though neither Runions nor another woman present in the home are parents to the victim and another child also present at the time of the incident.
Charging documents indicate Runions pressed the barrel of the gun to the girl’s chest after taking the magazine out, then pulled the trigger, killing the girl.
Runions is charged with aggravated child abuse and felony murder.
