An Alabama man has been arrested after he was accused of shooting his son’s girlfriend.
Jeffrey Scott Towers was arrested on Monday, May 11, on a warrant and charged with manslaughter, the Trussville Police Department announced in a statement.
Towers, 54, was arrested two months after the Trussville Law enforcement officials responded to a house after they received a call of an individual affected by a gunshot wound on March 7, around 9:30 p.m.
Upon their arrival, officers found the victim and he or she was identified as Towers’ son’s girlfriend, Whitney Robeson. She was rushed to an area hospital and was pronounced dead at 10:49 p.m., in keeping with AL.com.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office initially ruled the shooting accidental, in keeping with AL.com. Nevertheless, an in depth investigation was later conducted by the department’s Criminal Investigations Division and detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Towers on May 11. He was taken into custody that very same day and was later released on a $30,000 bond.
An investigation into the shooting stays ongoing as authorities work to find out the circumstances regarding the incident.
Following his arrest, Towers’ lawyers have insisted that their client is innocent.
“What happened to Ms. Robeson was a tragic event,” his attorneys, John Amari and Dain Stewart, told People. “While we understand that the justice system must play out … we all know that the facts will show that Mr. Towers has no criminal history, has been a productive and upstanding citizen for his entire life and just isn’t guilty of those charges.”
Robeson, 22, was remembered as “a lady in the complete bloom of her youth” in her obituary, together with her family noting that she would have been a “implausible mother and aunt” in the longer term. “But it surely was to not be-and we cannot begin to grasp why,” the obituary continued.
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“We’ll take her memory and indelible impact wherever we go. And we’ll take comfort in knowing that she had little doubt in her mind that she is perpetually loved,” the obituary stated.
She graduated from Auburn University in May 2025 with a level in interior design and got a job at Trade Consultant at Restoration Hardware soon after.
“This marvelous, independent woman was on the cusp of her successful profession in interior design, the job she had at all times wanted since she was a little bit girl watching HGTV,” the obituary read. “To have known Whitney, regardless of where, how, why, or for the way long, is to have been touched and transformed by her radiant soul.”