An Iowa man, 26-year-old Jovien T. Smith, has been accused of shooting his girlfriend and her five children in Nashville, Tennessee. As a result of the alleged shooting, one of the mother’s children, a 4-year-old girl, died.
According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD), the incident took place on Saturday, June 14, at around 10 p.m. While the mother and her five children were visiting family from Iowa, Smith allegedly shot at them while driving in a Dodge minivan on Westchester Drive.
According to WZTV, a verbal argument between Smith and his girlfriend, a 41-year-old woman, quickly escalated. Smith allegedly threw the mother’s cellphone off a window and even attempted to grab the Dodge’s steering wheel. Then, the shooting allegedly took place once the woman managed to pull over…