--- title: Teen Shoots Family After Being Told to Get Out of Bed description: A Tennessee teenager allegedly opened fire on his family after they told him to get out of bed and get ready for school, authorities said. canonical: https://time.com/4244007/tennessee-teen-shoots-family/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-02T00:25:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T09:17:48.791Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Tennessee Teen Shoots Family After Being Told to Get Out of Bed og:description: None of the injuries were considered life-threatening og:url: https://time.com/4244007/tennessee-teen-shoots-family/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tennessee Teen Shoots Family After Being Told to Get Out of Bed twitter:description: None of the injuries were considered life-threatening twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Tennessee Teen Shoots Family After Being Told to Get Out of Bed  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Mar 2, 2016 12:25 AM CUT  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Mar 2, 2016 12:25 AM CUT A Tennessee teenager allegedly [opened fire on his family after they told him to get out of bed](http://www.nashville.gov/News-Media/News-Article/ID/4998/Teen-Charged-in-Shooting-that-Injured-His-Grandmother-Sister-Nephew.aspx "undefined") and get ready for school, authorities said Tuesday. The 16-year-old boy, whose identity was not released, is accused of shooting his grandmother, his 12-year-old sister and his 6-year-old nephew inside their Nashville home, police said. The teen’s 67-year-old grandmother, Earline Hill, was struck at least twice and the two children had graze wounds, according to Nashville police. None of the injuries were considered life-threatening, [_USA Today_ reports.](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/03/01/teen-shoots-family-tennessee/81155086/ "undefined") Authorities say the boy made “threatening statements” before getting his handgun from a closet and firing multiple shots inside the apartment. He ran out of the apartment but was later captured and charged as a juvenile with four counts of attempted homicide and one count of reckless endangerment. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4244007/tennessee-teen-shoots-family/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4244007/tennessee-teen-shoots-family/"},"headline":"Tennessee Teen Shoots Family After Being Told to Get Out of Bed","datePublished":"2016-03-02T00:25:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T09:17:48.791Z","description":"None of the injuries were considered life-threatening","url":"https://time.com/4244007/tennessee-teen-shoots-family/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4244007/tennessee-teen-shoots-family/","name":"Tennessee Teen Shoots Family After Being Told to Get Out of Bed"}}]}] ```