Overview
- Deputies conducting a Jan. 2 welfare check at a home on East Little Richland Road in Waverly found four family members dead from gunshot wounds.
- Sheriff Chris Davis said preliminary findings indicate Heather Thompson, a 32-year-old nurse, shot her sons, Isaiah, 13, and Arius, 4, and her 88-year-old grandmother before killing herself.
- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is assisting the Humphreys County Sheriff’s Office, and the case remains open.
- Officials say records show no prior police interventions at the residence for domestic violence or mental-health crises.
- The children’s father, Jeremiah “Biah” Thompson, launched a GoFundMe for funeral and transport costs that has raised more than $11,900 toward a $16,000 goal.