Ashley Hunt lingered at the edge of the crime scene, not far from the body of a burglar who dropped face-down in the road from a homeowner's bullet in his neck .
She was 13 and arrived at the homicide with her father, Ewell Hunt, then a lieutenant at the Franklin County Sheriff's Office.
Her appearance there inaugurated a law enforcement love affair that began with a part-time sheriff's office job as a clerk when she was 14 and, once her father became Franklin County's elected sheriff in 2008, produced a gun-carrying, uniform-wearing, tantrum-throwing teen whom deputies nicknamed "Hurricane Ashley."
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