Proceeds from a Pioneer Pursuit Fall 2022 on Sept. 24 at Butler County Community College will benefit the Caitlyn Kaufman ’18 Legacy Nursing Scholarship available from the BC3 Education Foundation. Kaufman, formerly of Chicora and a 2012 graduate of Butler Senior High School, earned an associate degree in Nursing, from BC3 in 2018. She was killed in 2020 in Tennessee. SUBMITTED PHOTO

A Tennessee jury on Monday began deliberating the fate of the two men charged with first-degree murder in the December 2020 shooting death of Butler County native Caitlyn Kaufman.

The trial of DeVaunte Hill, 23, and James Cowan, 29, both of Tennessee, began Jan. 23 in Davidson County Court in Nashville, and testimony concluded Saturday. Prosecutors and defense attorneys made closing arguments Monday before Judge Angelia Dalton instructed the jury. The jury began deliberating around lunchtime

Hill testified Saturday that he fired a gun at Kaufman on Interstate 440 while Cowan was driving. Hill said Kaufman cut them off in traffic, and he shot at her vehicle in a fit of road rage.

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