MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (TCN) — Police consider a 24-year-old man shot and killed a 1-year-old and injured the kid’s mom throughout a home violence incident.
On Sunday, Jan. 26, at 2:34 p.m., Murfreesboro Police Division officers responded to a photographs fired name on the Chelsea Place Residences. Once they arrived, they discovered the 1-year-old who had been “shot a number of occasions.” Rutherford County Emergency Medical Companies pronounced the toddler deceased on the scene. Medics transported the kid’s mom to the hospital for a gunshot wound to the hand.
Authorities later situated the suspected shooter, Marquavious Hampton, deceased in Williamson County from an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound.
In an replace, police stated an “obvious dispute over loud music stands out as the motive behind the deadly taking pictures.” Hampton allegedly “turned offended as a consequence of loud music being performed by the mom,” which resulted in an argument and bodily altercation. Hampton reportedly shot on the baby, who was in a stroller. The sufferer’s mom jumped in entrance of the stroller “attempting to defend her child,” and was struck within the hand consequently.
Murfreesboro Police issued a Be On the Lookout alert for Hampton, and a license plate reader traced him to Williamson County. Williamson County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies tried a site visitors cease, however Hampton obtained out of the automotive and fled on foot. In keeping with the sheriff’s workplace, Hampton ran right into a subject as deputies chased after him. They reportedly “noticed what seemed to be a firearm within the topic’s hand,” and proper after that, he was discovered critically injured from a gunshot wound.
Hampton was taken to Vanderbilt Medical Middle, the place he died from his accidents.
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