A former university footballer who allegedly stalked and killed his cheerleader girlfriend has been released from jail on $US1 million bail ($1.34m).
The New York Daily News reports that William Riley Gaul, 18, was discharged from the Knox County Detention Facility in Tennessee after posting the bail.
![William Riley Gaul and Emma Jane Walker went to prom together. Photo / Twitter](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/J7Z6J54SL5X5HA6RFMHM376S3I.jpg?auth=4ef166e6dc48635b21bd0c44fd19fdbff3866a42eb6960792ade84ab5ad16cc4&width=16&height=22&quality=70&smart=true)
Gaul was arrested on November 22 a day after it is alleged that he took his grandfather's gun to shoot his ex-girlfriend, Emma Walker, 16, in her bedroom.
Before his arrest he tweeted about his love for his dead ex.