Rickman Man Charged in Overton County Double Homicide: Payton Wayne Nations Arrested

 In relation to the double homicide that claimed the lives of two Hawkins family members on Sunday morning, authorities have charged a Rickman man.

Special agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and the Overton County Sheriff's Office started looking into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Isaiah Thomas Hawkins (DOB: 07/14/2000) and Christina Denise Hawkins (DOB: 10/04/1981) at the request of Attorney General Bryant Dunaway of the 13th Judicial District. Both individuals were found dead from gunshot wounds outside a house in Rickman's 100 block of Freeman Drive.

Authorities determined that Payton Wayne Nations (DOB: 08/28/1998) was the person they thought was responsible during the course of the inquiry. Two counts of First Degree Murder were brought against Nations in the warrants that were acquired.

After a multi-agency manhunt, Nations was apprehended by the Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Putnam County Sheriff's Office on Sunday evening after being found in Putnam County. He was arrested on a $40 million bond after being taken to the Overton County Jail.

The charges are only accusations, officials said, and unless and until a country is proven guilty in a court of law, it is presumed innocent.

The inquiry is still under progress.