Gunmaker lawsuit after Auburn grad’s death faces major obstacle, attorney warns

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Lawyers for the parents of an Auburn graduate killed in an apparently accidental shooting at her boyfriend's home may face an uphill battle in a wrongful death lawsuit against his father and the gunmaker, according to attorney Paul Calli. As Alabama prosecutors remain tight-lipped about the alleged accidental shooting that killed an Auburn University graduate in her boyfriend's family home — weeks after she landed her dream job — a veteran trial attorney says the family’s lawsuit against the gunmaker may already face a problem. Jeffrey Towers, a 54-year-old father from Trussville, is accused of "inadvertently" shooting his son's 22-year-old girlfriend, Whitney Robeson, an Auburn University alumna who had just launched her interior design career weeks before her death. Robeson died in March, about an hour after Towers allegedly discharged an antique .