Devaunte Lewis Hill biography: 13 things about Nashville, Tennessee man

Devaunte Lewis Hill is an American man from Nashville, Tennessee, United States. On December 3, 2020, he fatally shot Caitlyn Kaufman, a nurse working at Saint Thomas West Hospital in Nashville.

Who is Devaunte Lewis Hill?

Hill and Kaufman did not know each other. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In March 2016, he fired a handgun after his grandmother and mother tried to wake him up for school. He shot his grandmother, his sister, then 13, and his nephew, then 6. He was convicted of three counts of attempted criminal homicide.
2. After pleading guilty to reduced charges of aggravated assault related to his shooting his three family member, he was placed in the custody of the Department of Children’s Services (DCS) in Nashville, which released him on a trial home visit in April 2017.
3. In June 2017, he and another person robbed a neighbor. He was arrested on aggravated robbery charge. He was returned back to the custody of the DCS after he pleaded guilty to the juvenile charge.
4. On May 13, 2018, he was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. The case was dismissed on May 31, 2018. On March 27, 2018, he was released from the custody of the DCS based on good-time credits earned in custody.
5. He worked at a restaurant called The Sutler in Melrose, Nashville. In May 2019, he grabbed a co-worker and slammed the head of the latter on a metal wall in the kitchen. Prior to this, the victim told him a joke not intended toward him.
6. On January 20, 2020, he was charged with assault.
7. On September 17, 2020, he was charged with driving with a suspended license.
8. On December 3, 2020, while he was in a car being driven by James Cowan, he shot Kaufman at least six times while she was in her gray Mazda CX-5 SUV along Interstate 440 in Nashville. On December 10, 2020, the Metro Nashville Police Department received a tip that he was the gunman. His gun matched to three 9 mm shell casings found at the crime scene.
9. On December 11, 2020, Metro Nashville Police Department’s special weapons and tactic (SWAT) members arrested him in Nashville. He was booked into the Davidson County Jail in Nashville and was held without bond. He was charged with criminal homicide in Kaufman’s killing. After being taken into custody, he admitted to shooting Kaufman.
10. On January 21, 2021, he appeared in court before Melissa Blackburn.
11. On January 31, 2023, he was found guilty of second-degree murder.
12. On March 29, 2023, Davidson County criminal court judge Angelita Blackshear Dalton sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
13. On July 7, 2023, he turned 24.