Men Who Allegedly Gunned Down Nurse Driving To Work Indicted On Murder Charges
Devaunte Hill, 21, and James Cowan, 28 are due in court on June 3 related to the first-degree murder of Nashville nurse Caitlyn Kaufman. Caitlyn Kaufman Photo: Facebook
A grand jury has indicted two men suspected in last year’s deadly highway shooting of Tennessee nurse Caitlyn Kaufman.
Devaunte Hill, 21, and James Cowan, 28, who were previously arrested in Kaufman’s shooting death, were officially indicted in first-degree murder charges on Thursday, according to CBS Pittsburgh.
Kaufman was fatally shot on Dec. 3, 2020 in while en route to a shift at St. Thomas West hospital in southwest Nashville where she worked. She was found behind the wheel of her Mazda CX-5 on the shoulder of Interstate-440 West near Nashville shortly before 9 p.m.
Tennessee police this week arrested a second suspect in the shooting death of a nurse who was shot to death last month while driving along Interstate 440 on her way to work, WKRN reports.
James Edward Cowan, 28, was arrested Tuesday night as he arrived at the Hickory Hollow Place apartment after they followed him from a motel where he’d been staying for several days.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, a Nashville Parks police officer saw Caitlyn Kaufman’s car against a guard rail off the highway on the west end of the city shortly before 9 p.m. on December 3. He stopped to assist, thinking it was a single-car accident, but instead found Kaufman with at least one gunshot wound.
Second Suspect in Murder of Nashville Nurse Caitlyn Kaufman Arrested Jan 13, 2021 at 03:51 pm by WGNS
The second man wanted for the December 3rd murder of Nashville nurse Caitlyn Kaufman as she traveled to work on I-440 is now in custody.
James Edward Cowan, 28, was apprehended tonight as the car in which he was riding backed into a parking spot at a Hickory Hollow Place apartment complex. MNPD undercover detectives, TBI & ATF agents surveilled the car as it traveled to the apartment complex from a Sidco Drive motel. It is suspected that Cowan had been staying at the motel for the past few days.
Another suspect arrested in fatal shooting of 26-year-old ICU nurse who was driving to work Brinley Hineman and Natalie Neysa Alund, Nashville Tennessean
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A second man wanted in connection with the shooting death of nurse Caitlyn Kaufman along a Nashville interstate was captured Tuesday night by a team of local, state and federal authorities.
James Edward Cowan, 28, was arrested when he arrived at a Hickory Hollow Place apartment complex by Metro Nashville police, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and ATF agents, authorities said. His girlfriend, 21-year-old Dimensha Carter, who was with him at the time of his arrest, was also arrested in connection with the case.