Overview
- Jeffrey Scott Towers, 54, was arrested on a manslaughter warrant Monday and released on a $30,000 bond, Trussville police said.
- The charge stems from a March 7 call to a Trussville home where officers found 22-year-old Whitney Robeson with a gunshot wound, and she was pronounced dead at 10:49 p.m.
- The Jefferson County coroner ruled the shooting accidental, but a weeks-long Criminal Investigations Division review led detectives to seek the warrant on May 11.
- Towers’ attorneys say he is innocent and note he has no criminal record.
- Robeson, a recent Auburn University graduate, had just started a job as a trade consultant at Restoration Hardware, her family said.