Overview
- Deputies conducting a Jan. 2 welfare check at a Waverly home found four relatives dead from gunshot wounds.
- Sheriff Chris Davis said preliminary evidence indicates Heather Thompson, 32, fatally shot her sons, Arius, 4, and Isaiah Johnson, 13, and their grandmother, Evelyn Johnson, 88, before killing herself.
- Investigators reported no sign of forced entry and no prior domestic-violence or mental-health call history at the residence.
- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is assisting local authorities, who say they do not believe anyone else was involved.
- The boys’ father launched a GoFundMe to bring them to New Mexico, raising roughly $11,000 toward a $16,000 goal as schools prepare counseling support.