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Rhea County man charged in daughter’s shooting death

Rhea County Sheriff' Office / Calvino Eugene Mynatt
Rhea County Sheriff' Office / Calvino Eugene Mynatt Rhea County Sheriff' Office / Calvino Eugene Mynatt

A Dayton, Tennessee, man faces a criminal homicide charge after he allegedly shot his daughter during an argument.

Calvino Eugene Mynatt, 49, was being held without bond Monday in the Rhea County Jail in connection with the shooting death of Alisha Inman, 32, at a residence on Walnut Grove Road, according to a statement from the Dayton Police Department and Rhea County General Sessions Court records.

Officers were dispatched at 6:14 p.m. Friday to an apartment building, where they found Inman with a gunshot wound, Dayton police said in the statement. Mynatt was taken into custody at an apartment building at the intersection of Walnut Grove Road and Broadway Street in North Dayton.

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A court affidavit filed by Dayton police Investigator Michael Dailey Green said Mynatt was sitting on the front steps of his apartment holding a handgun he eventually placed on the ground after a “brief negotiation.” Mynatt allegedly told police he and Inman were arguing over household chores, and she shoved him and he shoved her back as the altercation escalated.