US EditionLongtime Alabama Sports Broadcaster Christina Chambers Found Dead at Home in Hoover
Authorities describe the deaths as an apparent murder-suicide; a 3-year-old child in the home was unharmed, police said.
- On Tuesday morning, Christina Chambers, former WBRC sports reporter, and her husband were found dead in their Hoover, Alabama home in an apparent murder‑suicide, police said.
- Chambers joined WBRC in 2015, worked full‑time through 2021 and continued freelancing for the station into the 2025 football season, regularly covering high school football and UAB sports on the Sideline program.
- A family member found the two unresponsive around 9 a.m. and called police, leading Hoover Police Department and medics to find both adults with gunshot wounds and pronounce them dead.
- Police said a three‑year‑old child in the home was unharmed, and WBRC colleagues including Jeh Jeh Pruitt expressed grief, remembering Chambers' warmth and recent contact at the Super 7.
- Before joining WBRC, Chambers worked at WLTZ NBC38 in Columbus, Georgia and Comcast Sports Southeast, and she was a four-year Division 1A athlete at UAB with a B.A. in journalism.
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December 16, 2025 – HOOVER, Alabama – Agencies. It was confirmed that former sportswoman Christina Chambers was one of two people found dead Tuesday morning in a house in Hoover, in what appears to be a homicide-suicide case. Hoover police went to Christina’s house and her husband after a family member found them unconscious around 9 a.m. Authorities reported that a three-year-old boy was also in the house, but it turned out unharmed. Upon arriv…
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WDHNLongtime Alabama sports broadcaster Christina Chambers found dead at home in Hoover
A longtime Alabama sports broadcaster was one of two people found dead inside a home in Hoover Tuesday morning from what police believe was a murder-suicide.
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