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		</div><h6><span style="color: #362727;">Robin Howington of Knoxville, Tennessee was arrested on Wednesday for the September 2019 murder of her five-year-old daughter, Destiny Oliver who died from gunshot injuries on Sept 14</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #362727;">Howington, 37, was also charged with child neglect, false reporting, tampering with evidence and attempted tampering with evidence</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #362727;">The negligent mother, court documents reflect, gave conflicting incident accounts to investigators and on several occasions passed blame for the death on other people</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #362727;">Howington went from blaming a total stranger to accusing the child&#8217;s father, her current boyfriend and her two-year-old son</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #362727;">When evidence from surveillance cameras showed that she hid the alleged murder weapon, she claimed she hid the handgun after her toddler son discovered it in a closet and shot dead his sister </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #362727;">Howington was arrested by the Knox County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Wednesday and held on a $500,000 bond</span></h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-350813" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Robin-Howington-4.jpg" alt="Robin Howington 4" width="688" height="421" />Robin Howington [L-R], of Knoxville, TN, was charged with first-degree murder on Wednesday. Howington claimed her two-year-old son shot dead her her five-year-old daughter, a crime she actually committed according to court documents. She changed her story several times when she spoke to investigators about the murder </strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">A Tennessee mother is suspected of fatally shooting her five-year-old daughter in the chest before giving investigators conflicting stories about the incident &#8211; including blaming her two-year-old toddler son for the death.<br />
Robin Howington, 37, has been indicted by a grand jury of first-degree murder, child neglect, false reporting, tampering with evidence and attempted tampering with evidence from the September 14, 2019 death of her daughter, Destiny Oliver.<br />
She was arrested by the Knox County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Wednesday and held on a $500,000 bond.<br />
Last year, authorities dispatched to Howington&#8217;s Fountain City neighborhood home to find the young girl had been shot, according to <a class="class" href="https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/08/knoxville-mother-charged-felony-murder-5-year-old-daughters-shooting-death-robin-howington/5397367002/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">Knoxville News Sentinel</a>.<br />
Destiny was taken to University of Tennessee Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.</p>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-350820" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Destiny-Oliver-3.jpg" alt="Destiny Oliver 3" width="715" height="1018" /></span></strong><strong>Five-year-old Destiny Oliver [photo], after being shot by her mom Robin Howington, succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Sept., 14. </strong><strong>Deputies Office dispatched to Howington&#8217;s Knoxville, Tennessee, home found Destiny, with a gunshot wound</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-350825" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Robin-Howington-aand-her-daughter-Destiny-Oliver-3.jpg" alt="Robin Howington aand her daughter Destiny Oliver 3" width="706" height="931" /></span>Five-year-old Destiny Oliver [left], after being shot by her mom Robin Howington [right], succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Howington, has been indicted by a grand jury of first-degree murder, child neglect, false reporting, tampering with evidence and attempted tampering with evidence </strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">When questioned by investigators, Howington would try to pass blame on four other individuals.<br />
First, she told investigators that a unidentified man broke into their home and shot Destiny once in the chest before fleeing in a black Chrysler 300.<br />
Howington later claimed the girl&#8217;s father, Antoine Oliver, was the culprit who shot their daughter before escaping in a black Chrysler 300.<br />
She claimed Oliver shot their daughter after a tense argument between them.<br />
Around this time, authorities discovered a handgun hidden in a bush outside Howington&#8217;s home.</p>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-350822" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Robin-Howington-aand-her-daughter-Destiny-Oliver-2.jpg" alt="Robin Howington aand her daughter Destiny Oliver 2" width="680" height="955" /></span>Robin Howington [right], initially told investigators that her daughter, seen [left], was killed by an unidentified man, but later said the killer was the Destiny&#8217;s father, Antoine Oliver. Around the same time, cops discovered a handgun hidden in a bush outside her home </strong></h6>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-350816" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Destiny-Oliver-2.jpg" alt="Destiny Oliver 2" width="853" height="567" /></span>Howington then claimed her boyfriend Daniel Hensley, who is not Destiny&#8217;s father, had hidden the handgun in a bush outside her home </strong></h6>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Cops saw her on surveillance footage from a neighbor hiding the firearm among the shrubbery. Confronted with the evidence, Howington allegedly admitted to hiding the weapon on the bushes, but she claims it was out of maternal instinct.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Continuing her spin, Howington, in her most shocking claim, then told investigators that she wiped down the gun and stashed it after her two-year-old son discovered the weapon in a closet. The same toddler, she said, shot dead her daughter.<br />
Howington&#8217;s boyfriend later told investigators that he witnessed her brandish a gun at Destiny&#8217;s father the day of the shooting.<br />
The father reportedly took the gun away from Howington.</p>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-350812" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Robin-Howington-3.jpg" alt="Robin Howington 3" width="713" height="518" /></span>Murder suspect Robin Howington is seen making an appearance in Knox County General Sessions Court in Oct 2019. Prosecutors say Howington &#8216;did unlawfully kill Destiny Oliver during the perpetration of aggravated child neglect&#8217;</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">I</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">t&#8217; s unclear what events led up to the shooting and, subsequently, the death of Destiny Oliver on September 14, 2019.</span><br />
The indictment states that Howington &#8216;did unlawfully kill [Destiny Oliver] during the perpetration of aggravated child neglect&#8217;.<br />
The tampering charges stem from Howington reportedly trying to destroy her cell phone and moved furniture around the night of Destiny&#8217;s death.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">While at the hospital after Destiny&#8217;s shooting, Howington allegedly tried to destroy her cell phone to hide illegal marijuana sales that involved her. </span></span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">She told authorities she did not want investigators learn of illegal marijuana sales she had conducted.<br />
According to </span><a class="class" style="font-size: 1rem;" href="https://www.wate.com/news/knoxville-mom-to-face-felony-murder-child-neglect-charges-in-death-of-5-year-old-daughter/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">WATE</a><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"> Howington tried to disable the cell phone by running it under water at the hospital &#8211; </span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">A witness claimed that Howington tried to pass off the cell phone to her and even offered her money to take it.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Howington has not yet entered a plea to the charges</span></p>
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Tennessee mother, 37, ‘shot dead her five-year-old daughter,’ tried to blame her toddler – Robin Howington is being charged with murder
