Kayla Viars

Death by Force

On January 1, 2018, Kayla Viars, a 27-year-old woman from Loudon, Tennessee, tragically died from a gunshot wound. Viars was a passenger in a car driven by Dominick Michael Brown, also known as "True Story," when Marques Dewayne Wheeler, 26, allegedly began playing with a .22-caliber handgun. According to Wheeler, the gun accidentally fired, striking Viars in the back. Brown drove Viars to East Tennessee Children's Hospital, where she was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

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