Why was an 11-year-old girl shot dead as she came home from first day at new school?

Why was an 11-year-old girl shot dead as she came home from first day at new school?

Neighbours and police say they are baffled by the death of Timea Lashay Batts in Tennessee

• Michael E Miller
  

     
A photograph of Timea Lashay Batts shared on social media 


On Monday afternoon, Timea Lashay Batts caught the bus home after her first day of middle school. The 11-year-old with twotone
hair and a bright smile left the bus and began to walk through her quiet neighborhood of Hendersonville, Tenn.
By the time she reached her own house, however, Timea somehow had been shot, her dad told police.
He took his daughter to the hospital but it was too late.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/timea-lashay-batts-shot-dead-11-years-old-tennessee-a7180866.html

Oh no. This is awful. What happened??

This is it Eddie, nobody knows..

My first thought was a stray bullet.

I should have carried on reading, I thought it ended at one of the pictures, which is slack of me.





When the warrant finally arrived, the case took a sudden twist.
At around 9:30 pm, Mr Vaughn told reporters he no longer thought the shooting happened outside Timea’s house.
“The evidence tells me that it happened inside,” he said.
“At first you told us it appeared if she had been shot walking from the school bus to the home,” one reporter asked as she filmed the detective on her phone. “Were you given false information?”
“We were told that the incident took place from the bus to the house, somewhere along the way,” he  answered. “We don’t know if that was mostly false yet or not.”
Less than four hours later, Timea’s father was under arrest.
Timothy Batts was charged with reckless homicide, tampering with evidence, false reporting and possessing a firearm as a felon, Fox 17 reported. His bond and court date have not yet been set.

"Possessing a firearm as a felon."

So.. He had a criminal record.
Probably/possibly obtained the gun illegally.

And like a lot of crims ('felons') probably didn't know how to handle it either ?
Hence the "reckless" homicide..

Some people definitely shouldn't be allowed to breed...

And another child dies at the hands of an ignorant gun-toting shithead.