Caitlyn Kaufman, a 26-year-old Nashville nurse, was fatally shot as she drove down Interstate 440 westbound between Hillsboro Pike and West End Avenue on Dec. 3, 2020, Metro Nashville police said. She is a Butler High School and BC3 graduate.submitted photo

A Tennessee jury Tuesday afternoon found one of the defendants in the murder of Butler County native Caitlyn Kaufman guilty of second-degree murder, and found the second defendant not guilty.

The jury found DeVaunte Hill, 23, of Tennessee, guilty of second-degree murder in Kaufman’s Dec. 3, 2020, shooting death in a road rage case in Nashville.

Hill testified and admitted to shooting Kaufman, 26, of Chicora, while co-defendant James Cowan, 29, also of Tennessee, was driving. The jury found Cowan not guilty. Both had been charged with first degree murder.

The trial started Jan. 23, and the jury began deliberation on Monday.

Hill’s sentencing has been scheduled for March 3 in Davidson County Court in Nashville.