TN man shoots and kills girlfriend, thought she was an intruder

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A Tennessee man admitted to shooting and killing his girlfriend this morning, claiming he thought she was an intruder, police said.

Samantha Crumpton, 36, was fatally shot inside her apartment in the Waterford Crossings complex of Old Franklin Pike in South Nashville.

Crumpton’s boyfriend, Marcus A. Lewis, 35, admitted to shooting her, but claimed he did not know she was in the apartment. Lewis told police he thought that he was confronting an intruder.

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