Woman Killed in Tarrant Home Drive-By Shooting
I’ll be honest with you—stories like this cut deep because they remind us how quickly an ordinary night can turn into tragedy. On August 31, just after 10 p.m., shots were fired into a home on the 1400 block in Tarrant. Inside that home was 35-year-old Kristy Denise Harrison, a Birmingham resident who had simply shown up for a Labor Day gathering.
She wasn’t part of any fight. She wasn’t expecting danger. Yet a drive-by shooting ended her life in the very place where she should have felt safe. Police later confirmed that the weapon used was a semi-automatic, fired directly into the house without regard for who might be inside.
For me, the hardest part is this: Kristy wasn’t even involved in the dispute that police say may have triggered the shooting. She just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And that’s exactly why this story feels so unsettling—it could have been any one of us, or someone we love…