Man Pleads Not Guilty In Butler Native Shooting Death

NASHVILLE — The two men accused of shooting and killing a woman originally from Butler County along a Nashville interstate entered not guilty pleas in court Thursday. According to WSMV, Devaunte Hill and James Cowan appeared via video on charges of first-degree murder related to the December 2020 death of Caitlyn Kaufman. Kaufman, 26, was shot and killed while driving to her job as an ICU nurse at a Nashville hospital. The windshield of her SUV and the back windows were smashed by the gunfire. She was found dead in her SUV just before 9 p.m. that night after she failed to show up for her shift at St. Thomas West Hospital. She grew up in Chicora and her family said it was her lifelong dream to move to Nashville. A section of I-440 outside of the city was renamed in her memory. WSMV reported one of the men charged in Kaufman’s death said she had cut them off on the highway and that is what led to the deadly shooting.