Press Release: ABC Daycare Shooting Investigation
Homewood Police Department News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 21, 2025
ABC Daycare Shooting Investigation
On July 21st, at approximately 9:20 AM, Homewood Police Department officers responded to a report of gunshots near ABC Daycare, located at 610 Columbiana Road in Homewood.
Officers responded to the scene and verified that there were no injuries. After conducting interviews, they found out the following information. A parent and her sister arrived at the daycare to drop a child off. They got into a verbal argument with an employee which then became physical. The fight was broken up by other employees, at which time the parent, her sister, and the child left the daycare in their vehicle, driving down Carr Avenue towards Greensprings Highway. Witnesses stated that the daycare employee then got into her own vehicle, followed the victims down Carr Avenue, and fired multiple shots at their vehicle with a handgun. There were no injuries to anyone in the victim’s vehicle.
Detectives and crime scene investigators processed the scene and recovered a bullet from a tire on the victim’s vehicle. The daycare employee was arrested pending charges for Attempted Murder.
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