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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following information was taken from the intake reports generated from the Sevier County Jail. All are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. Names

SEVIERVILLE — A Cleveland woman accused of shooting her boyfriend on I-40 and trying to make his death look like an accident is now facing a charge of first-degree murder after a Sevier County grand jury enhanced the charge. Brittany Faith Swafford was already charged with second-degree murder in relation to the Aug. 12 murder of Samuel Lane. Sevierville Police officers found Lane’s body in his car on I-40, where it had rolled off the road and had been reported as a possible single car accident. Investigators determined Lane had been shot. Swafford later told investigators a gun in ...