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NASHVILLE – A tip from a concerned citizen provided a pivotal break Friday in the Dec. 3 slaying of 26-year-old nurse Caitlyn Kaufman, who worked in the intensive care unit at Saint Thomas West Hospital.
At dawn, members of Metro Nashville Police Department’s SWAT team descended on an East Nashville apartment complex and made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a Nashville nurse who was driving to work when police say someone opened fire on her SUV.
Devaunte Lewis Hill, 21, was taken into custody at 6:15 a.m. in Kaufman s death.
Nashville police Chief John Drake said Hill, a Nashville native, was arrested without incident at his Porter Road home in Berkshire Place Apartments. Hill was charged with criminal homicide in Kaufman s evening slaying along Interstate 440 west in Nashville.
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The Metro Nashville Police Department said Devaunte Lewis Hill, 21, had been arrested for the Dec. 3 death of 26-year-old Caitlyn Kaufman. Hill, who faces a criminal homicide charge, was arrested Friday morning by SWAT team members at his East Nashville home after authorities received a tip from a “concerned citizen.” Hill and Kaufman didn’t know each other, police said.
“While it was a relief to be able to sign the arrest warrant, it was an exceptional relief to be able to call [Kaufman’s mother] Diane Kaufman, who is back in Pennsylvania right now,” Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said during a Friday news conference. “Obviously there was a lot of tears, just joy. She said that she was able to get some closure before the funeral.”
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