Kynath Terry Jr shoots & kills newborn wife, Precious Johnson before turning gun on self at Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital in Homewood, Birmingham, Alabama. Couple had been having marital problems. Tragedy raises questions over hospital security.
A new mother was gunned down at an Alabama hospital by her husband before the man turning the murder weapon on himself, police said.
Precious Johnson, 24, was shot multiple times by her husband, Kynath ‘William’ Terry Jr., 19,after she gave birth to their child, before shooting himself dead in an apparent murder-suicide.
The tragedy according to The Homewood Police Department occurred at around 9:25 p.m. on Sunday at the Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital in Homewood, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.
Marital problems
‘Preliminary investigation by Homewood Police leads investigators to believe that the incident is an apparent murder-suicide and is domestic in nature,’ read a statement in part from police.
Not immediately clear is whether the newborn was present when the dad shot dead their mom then self.
Terry’s mother speaking to local12 said the couple was having marital issues, adding that Johnson did not want Terry’s family at the hospital when she delivered the child. She added that her son had recently finished Army National Guard training.
New questions on hospital security
Danne Howard, the president of the Alabama Hospital Association, told WTVM 13 that the attack ‘was an isolated incident’ unlike anything she’d encountered during her three decades working in the state.
Hospital leaders declined to speak on camera or address questions regarding security, but Howard told WVTM that there are no security mandates for hospitals in the State of Alabama.
Homewood Mayor Jennifer Andress said the investigation remains active.
