On the morning of July 7, 2016, Jennifer Brewer Rooney, 44, a newspaper carrier for the Bristol Herald Courier, was killed during a spree shooting on Volunteer Parkway in Bristol, Tennessee. She was en route to pick up newspapers for her delivery route when a bullet struck her; her vehicle then left the road and crashed. Three other people were wounded: Days Inn clerk Deborah Watts was shot and seriously injured, David Whitman Davis suffered minor injuries from flying glass, and Bristol police officer Matthew Cousins was superficially wounded in the leg.

Authorities identified 37-year-old Lakeem Keon Scott, an Army veteran, as the shooter. Armed with an automatic-style rifle, a pistol, and a large quantity of ammunition, he fired into the Days Inn and at passing vehicles before engaging officers in a shootout; he was wounded and taken into custody. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation reported that Scott had been angered by recent incidents of police violence against African Americans, and all the victims in the attack were white.

Scott was charged in Rooney’s death and in the related shootings, and later entered a guilty plea. Anyone with information about Jennifer Rooney or who witnessed the events on Volunteer Parkway that morning is asked to come forward.