No Charges After Employee Accidentally Fires Gun Inside Maude Whatley Health Center

TUSCALOOSA, AL — Tuscaloosa Police confirm there were no injuries or criminal charges filed last week when an employee at Maude Whatley Health Center accidentally discharged a firearm inside the main facility.

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TPD spokeswoman Stephanie Taylor said officers were first called to the health care facility at 3:29 p.m. on Thursday, July 13, and learned that the employee had fired only one round by mistake.

Officers then found that the bullet had traveled through a wall and lodged into the ceiling.

After the initial investigation, no one was charged as a result of the incident.

While it has yet to be officially confirmed by administrators at Maude Whatley, an employee who asked to not be identified by name said the accidental discharge was by a security guard.

The health care facility, located on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, offers a wide range of health care services, such as internal medicine, family medicine, pediatric and adolescent medicine and mental health services.

Tuscaloosa Patch has reached out to Maude Whatley Health Services for comment and will update this story accordingly.

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