Alabama Couple Faces Abuse Charges, Husband Dies by Suicide

0:00It's April 29th. This is Birmingham News Today, AI, Powered Stories From Your City. And St. Clair County, Alabama, a 39-year-old woman named Shelley Edwards from Cropwell, bases aggravated child abuse charges after cops dug into. Claims of mistreatment against minors. She's locked up with Albaughan in the county jail in Pell City. Meanwhile, her 45-year-old husband, Jeffrey, had an arrest warrant out for first-degree rape. The deputies sent in the SWAT team on Tuesday, April 28th, to bring him in at their home. The victims range from 7 to 18 years old, and officials say their probe shows no signs of other people getting hurt like this. No deputies got injured during the whole thing. As SWAT pulled up, they found Jeffrey dead inside from what looks like a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. Now Oxford police are handling an outside look into the suicide, with forensics experts from Jacksonville State University processing the scene. This heartbreaking case wraps up one chapter with the arrest in the death, but the full

1:00story on the abuse allegations is still unfolding through, ongoing investigations.