Brent Bogle, 30, a White man from the Cookeville area, was pulled into a sudden, violent chain of events on the morning of August 1, 2022, when the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office received a call around 10:30 a.m. that someone had been shot. Deputies rushed to a home on Dyer Long Road in the western part of Putnam County and found Bogle inside with multiple gunshot wounds.
Emergency responders moved quickly, carrying Bogle first to Cookeville Regional Medical Center and then transferring the victim to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville as the injuries proved too severe for local care. Despite the effort and the miles of road between hospitals, Bogle died after the transfer.
As investigators tried to reconstruct what happened inside the house, they focused on the homeowner, Amanda Borden. When deputies arrived that morning, Borden was not at the residence, and authorities publicly asked for help finding her, describing her as wanted for questioning while the homicide investigation took shape. In the days immediately after the shooting, officials also said she had multiple outstanding warrants in Putnam County Juvenile and General Sessions Court, with reporting that her bond on those warrants totaled $6,250.
Borden later surfaced on her own. Authorities said she turned herself in to the Sheriff’s Office on outstanding warrants and was taken into custody; officials also said she was cooperating with investigators as they continued gathering evidence. In the early stage of the case, Sheriff Eddie Farris publicly suggested the evidence could point toward a possible self-defense scenario, while emphasizing that nothing had been ruled out and that investigators would review the facts alongside the District Attorney’s Office before deciding whether additional charges were warranted.
In the immediate aftermath, officials indicated that no charges directly tied to the shooting had been filed as of August 3, 2022, leaving Bogle’s death suspended in the uneasy space between what was known and what still had to be proven. The investigation remained centered on establishing the circumstances of the shooting, the roles of those involved, and whether the law would treat the killing as a criminal act or a justified use of force.
