Shatwell v. State

BRANDON J. HARRISON, Judge.

11 Savanna Dickinson’s life ended on a mid-November night in 2011. Harrison police officers responded to a call that Savanna had taken her own life in an apartment she shared with Jon Shatwell. With the help of the fire department, police officers entered the locked apartment. They found Savanna, alone, slumped on a couch by the front door. Her face and head were encased in blood. She was dead. A .45-caliber (1911 style) semi-automatic pistol lay near her right hand.

Savanna had been shot between her eyes. There was a live round of ammunition on the living-room floor…