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 Police officers responded to a home after they received a call of a person suffering from a gunshot wound on March 7, around 9:30 p.m.
Upon their arrival, officers found the victim and she was identified as Towers’ son’s girlfriend, Whitney Robeson. She was rushed to a local hospital and was pronounced dead at 10:49 p.m., according to AL.com.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office initially ruled the shooting accidental, according to AL.com. However, an extensive 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 same day and was later released on a $30,000 bond.
An investigation into the shooting remains ongoing as authorities work to determine 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 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 is not guilty of these charges.”
Robeson, 22, was remembered as “a woman in the full bloom of her youth” in her obituary, with her family noting that she would have been a “fantastic mother and aunt” in the future. “But it was not to be-and we cannot begin to understand why,” the obituary continued.
“We will take her memory and indelible impact wherever we go. And we will take comfort in knowing that she had no doubt in her mind that she is forever loved,” the obituary stated.
She graduated from Auburn University in May 2025 with a degree 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 career in interior design, the job she had always wanted since she was a little girl watching HGTV,” the obituary read. “To have known Whitney, no matter where, how, why, or for how long, is to have been touched and transformed by her radiant soul.”
