Alabama National Guardsman Kynath William Terry Jr., shot Precious Elicia J’anae Johnson multiple times before fatally shooting himself inside a hospital maternity section on March 1

Terry Jr., 19, fatally shot shot his 24-year-old wife, then himself at the Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital around around 9:30 p.m on Sunday, moments after welcoming their first child

Terry’s mother, said he had completed Army National Guard training before tying the knot with Johnson

Her son and his newly wed wife were having some marital issues leading up to due date for their baby’s arrival, she said

Kynath Terry Jr., [left], shot his wife Precious Elicia J’anae Johnson, [right], multiple times, before shooting himself inside the Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital, Alabama, moments after she gave birth to their first child on Sunday, March 1

A newly wedded Alabama National Guards man fatally shot his wife before dying by suicide at an Alabama hospital just the same day they welcomed their first child.
Kynath William Terry Jr., 19, shot 24-year-old Precious Elicia J’anae Johnson multiple times, before fatally shooting himself inside the Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, March 1, in what authorities in Homewood, Alabama, believe was a domestic-related murder-suicide.
Johnson delivered a healthy baby on Sunday. That same night her husband shot her several times, then turned the gun on himself.
Terry a newly graduated National Guardsman died of self-inflicted gunshot injury at the scene. Terry and Johnson were the only ones affected in the shooting, police said.

Kynath William Terry Jr. [photo], completed Army National Guard training before marrying Johnson. The newborn was their first child. His mom said the couple were having marital issues leading up to the birth of their baby

According to Terry’s mother, he had completed Army National Guard training before tying the knot with Johnson, adding that her son and his newly wed wife were having some marital issues leading up to due date for their baby’s arrival.
She noted that her daughter-in-law did not want her husband’s side of the family at the hospital for her child’s birth. However she said, nothing that made her fear her son would become violent.
The hospital was plunged into a lockdown, ‘out of an abundance of caution’, while police investigated reports of a shooting.
It wasn’t lifted until hours later when they determined there was “no active threat to patients, team members or the public.”
The Homewood Police Department would later describe the tragedy as “an apparent murder-suicide and is domestic in nature.”

The shooting happened inside the maternity ward of the Brookwood Baptist Medical Center on Sunday

Danne Howard, the president of the Alabama Hospital Association, described it as ‘an isolated incident’ unlike anything she’d encountered during her three decades working in the state.
In the wake of the tragedy, the Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital would undergo a security overhaul implementing “lessons learned” from a mandated after-action report, Howard said.