Overview
- Officers responded shortly after 2:30 a.m. Jan. 11 to a Lowe’s parking lot and found Bryan Harbison performing CPR on Atwell, who was later pronounced dead at Baptist Health Hardin.
- The juvenile suspect told police she picked up a handgun inside the vehicle, pointed it at Atwell, and pulled the trigger, and she remains in custody on a murder charge.
- Investigators say Harbison met the two 15-year-old girls on Snapchat, bought alcohol for them, and drove them to the parking lot to drink.
- Harbison is charged with unlawful transaction with a minor and first-degree wanton endangerment, though reports differ on the degree of the unlawful-transaction count; he pleaded not guilty and his bond was set at $10,000.
- Police say the suspect reported the gun was placed on the center console and described as unloaded, while Harbison said it was secured in the glove compartment and taken without his knowledge.