HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn.—A Tennessee man accused of fatally shooting his 11-year-old daughter in a Nashville suburb has failed a drug test three days after bonding out of jail.
According to court records, a motion to revoke Timothy Batts’s bond is set for Friday. He tested positive for cocaine last week.
Batts is charged with reckless homicide, tampering with evidence, false reporting and other crimes in Timea Lashay Batts’ death.
The father told Hendersonville detectives he shot Timea thinking she was an intruder when she came home from her first day of school Aug. 8.
He originally told police that Timea had been shot before arriving home.
Court records do not indicate if Batts has an attorney and the public defender’s office says no one there has been assigned to his case yet.
Batts spoke at a funeral for his daughter last week. “Forgive me for all of my sins and let me start all over again,” Batts said at the church ceremony last Tuesday night, according to The Tennessean.
He was able to attend the service after a judge reduced his bond by half to $500,000, a sum he paid on Aug. 12.
“I wish it was a nightmare and I can awake now but it’s all too real. Since the day you were born I never pictured life without you,” he said.
Epoch Times contributed to this report.
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