Sentenced: 14MO Girl Shot & Killed In Home With 11 Firearms, Several Found In Reach Of The Children

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Angelia Mae Smith, 30, pleaded guilty to one count endangering a child on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, stemming from the fatal shooting of her daughter, Alicia Johnson, on March 28, 2024, inside her home.

Smith was sentenced to one year in a state jail facility. As part of the plea bargain, a pending charge of criminally negligent homicide was dismissed.

On Feb. 25, Brian Keith Johnson, the victim’s father and Smith’s co-defendant, was found guilty by a Knox County jury for one count of criminally negligent homicide and one count of endangering a child.

The same jury that convicted Johnson handed him a two-year state jail sentence and a $10,000 fine on each charge. The verdict and sentence each came after 10 minutes of deliberation.

Testimony during Johnson’s trial revealed that Smith was home with she and Johnson’s four children in the early morning hours of March 28, 2024, when her 14-month-old daughter was fatally shot by a sibling who found a loaded handgun in the home.

Law enforcement officials testified that a later search of the home revealed a total of eleven firearms, four of which were loaded with a round in the chamber. Several were found to be within reach of her children.

https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local-news/knox-city-mother-pleads-in-deadly-shooting-of-14-month-old/