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Anna Katrina Sevilla

Postpartum Nightmare: Husband Kills Wife in Hospital, Then Takes His Own Life

A father shot his wife to death after she gave birth to their first child at the Brookwood Baptist Medical Center in Alabama Sunday evening (Credit: Screenshot /YouTube WVTM 13 News)

A young couple's celebration was overshadowed by a fatal tragedy on the evening of 1 March 2026, when a father shot his wife to death after she gave birth to their first child, before shooting himself in what the police are calling a murder-suicide.

​Precious Johnson, 24 years old, was shot dead by her husband, Kynath Terry Jr., 19 years old, inside the Women's Centre of the Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital on Sunday, 1 March 2026, at around 9:30 p.m. He then proceeded to shoot himself. According to reports, Johnson had just given birth to their child.

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