Leslie C. Buttram Gillespie was a white woman from Alabama, United States also known as Leslie C. Shaw. Here are 10 more things about her:

1. She lived in Hillsboro, Lawrence County, Alabama. _(a)
2. Aside from Hillsboro, she also lived in other parts of Alabama including Trinity and Decatur. _(b)
3. She attended East Lawrence High School in Trinity. She represented the school at the practical government workshop Girl’s State at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama from June 12-17, 1994. _(c)
4. On February 13, 2001, she and Stacey Barry Gillespie got married. _(c)
5. On January 7, 2011, her father Michael Wayne Buttram died at Decatur General Hospital in Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama. He was 53. _(d)
6. From 2013 to 2019, she worked at Hazlewood Elementary School in Town Creek, Lawrence County. _(c)
7. In August 2019, she started working as an English teacher at R.A. Hubbard High School in North Courtland, Lawrence County. She was R.A. Hubbard High School’s 2019 Teacher of the Year. _(a)(c)(e)
8. She was accused of engaging in a sex act with two male R.A. Hubbard School students aged 15 and 16 in her classroom after school hours in September 2020. _(a)
9. Shortly after 4:00 p.m. on May 27, 2021, the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office arrested her. She was charged with second-degree rape, second-degree sodomy and being a school employee engaging in a sex act with a student under the age of 19. She was released on $60,000 bail. _(a)
10. On May 29, 2021, she died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot in her home in Hillsboro. She was 44. _(a)

_SOURCES:

• _{a. Daily Mail}
• _{b. Whitepages}
• _{c. Leslie Buttram Gillespie}
• _{d. Legacy}
• _{e. WAAY}