From staff reports
The parents of a 2-year-old girl who died at an unlicensed daycare when another child got ahold of a loaded shotgun left on a kitchen table can move forward with their case alleging negligent infliction of emotional distress, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
Delia and Jeromy Newman s daughter, Abagail, died Oct. 25, 2016 at the Hendersonville home of Heather Stepp when Stepp s young child found the loaded shotgun, not secured by a safety or other mechanism, in the kitchen and the gun fired, striking Abagail in the chest, according to the Supreme Court decision. Abagail died shortly after at a hospital.