Caitlyn Kaufman’s killer gets maximum 25 year prison sentence
The Nashville, Tenn., man convicted in the December 2020 murder of Butler County native Caitlyn Kaufman was sentenced Wednesday, March 29, to 25 years in prison.
DeVaunte Hill, 23, was convicted in January in Nashville of second-degree murder and received the maximum prison sentence.
A second suspect, James Cowan, 29, who was driving the car from which Hill fired at least six gunshots in the Dec. 3, 2020, road-rage incident that left Kaufman dead, was acquitted earlier by a jury following a four-day trial in Davidson County Court. The jury deliberated for two days before rendering verdicts for Hill and Cowan.
Kaufman, of Chicora, was 26. She was driving to St. Thomas West Hospital in Nashville, where she worked as an intensive care nurse, when Hill shot her. She was found dead in her vehicle along Interstate 440 several hours after the shooting after she didn’t arrive for work.
Judge Angelita Blackshear Dalton, who presided over the trial, held a sentencing hearing earlier this month, and issued the sentence Wednesday.
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