Mom of 5 gunned down in the driveway by her own brother while her kids were inside getting ready for school: Police

Inset (left): Kayla Winkles (GoFundMe). Inset (right): Joseph Cook (Dickson County Sheriff's Office). Background: News footage of the country of the White Bluff, Tenn., location wherever Kayla Winkles was allegedly changeable (WKRN).

A Tennessee antheral was arrested aft constabulary said helium fatally shot his sister pursuing an statement successful her driveway.

Joseph Cook, 31, is charged with first-degree murder successful transportation with the shooting decease of his sister, 35-year-old Kayla Winkles. According to reporting by section ABC affiliate WKRN, the Dickson County Sheriff's Office responded to calls astir a shooting astatine a location successful White Bluff, Tennessee, connected Friday morning. Deputies arrived astatine 7:30 a.m. and recovered Winkles suffering from a gunshot coiled successful her driveway. She was taken to TriStar Horizon Medical Center, wherever she was pronounced dead.

Capt. Jennifer Carruthers with the Dickson County Sheriff's Office told WKRN that the siblings were having "some benignant of argument."

WKRN reported that deputies arrested Cook astatine the country without incident. He is being held astatine the Dickson County Jail connected $2 cardinal bond.

Winkles' fellow of astir 15 years, Paris Triggs, told WKRN that the couple's 5 children were wrong the location getting acceptable for schoolhouse erstwhile their parent was allegedly killed. Police did not supply a crushed for the statement Winkles was having with her brother, oregon wherefore Cook was astatine the location connected Friday morning.

Savannah Carr, Winkles' champion friend, besides told WKRN she spoke to Winkles by telephone each morning. At 7:05 a.m. connected the time of the alleged shooting, Carr said, "I was like, 'I should telephone Kayla.' And past I didn't. And I regret that."

A GoFundMe campaign was started to assistance Triggs and Winkles' household rise wealth for ceremonial expenses.

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The Dickson County Sheriff's Office told WKRN that the section would supply enactment and counseling for Winkles' children.

Cook is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Nov. 16.

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