Nurse’s last words to husband before she was shot dead in car park | US | News

According to a recently filed lawsuit, a nurse had just finished her shift at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was walking to her vehicle in the parking lot while talking on the phone with her husband when a man attacked her with a firearm.

The lawsuit alleges that Ada Chapman Doss, 27, was audibly terrified during a phone call with her husband when Matthew Taylor, 41, allegedly shot and killed her during a carjacking attempt in May, WVTM 13 News reported. In a devastating turn of events, Doss’ husband was on the line to hear his wife’s final words before she was fatally shot.

“That afternoon, as she walked to her vehicle in the DCH South parking lot and talked to her husband on the phone, Ada Doss’ voice was filled with fear and panic as Taylor approached her with a gun,” the complaint states. “Tragically, Ada’s husband, Andrew Doss, had to endure hearing his wife’s final words: ‘please don’t, I’ve got babies’ seconds before Taylor shot and killed Ada.”

Doss, a registered nurse at an Alabama hospital, had finished her shift on May 12, 2026, and made her usual call to her husband as she headed toward the parking lot. “As is customary, she called her husband to discuss their 6-month-old and 2-year-old daughters’ workdays, dinner plans, and evening routines,” the lawsuit states. The statement was included.

Taylor arrived at the DCH Emergency Department entrance earlier that same day, “unbeknownst” to Doss, and was brought in by a person who reported that Taylor was “complaining of a manic episode,” the complaint said.

“After being informed of Taylor’s alleged manic and erratic behavior, Allied security personnel and DCH security personnel failed to assess the security threat and take action to locate Taylor,” according to the lawsuit.

The filing alleged that Taylor was “allowed” to leave the emergency room entrance and “wandered freely around the DCH campus unmonitored for hours.”

The legal action alleges that although Taylor was “shirtless, shoeless and armed,” hospital staff and security made no attempt to “locate and confront Taylor.”

The source of the alleged weapon is unknown.

The complaint filed by Andrew Doss against the DCH Health Authority alleges wrongful death and negligence on the part of the defendants. Doss’s wife and estate are seeking both compensatory and punitive damages, as well as a jury trial.

Following the parking lot shooting, Taylor was taken into custody and on June 3, a grand jury indicted him on three felonies that included capital murder, first-degree robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm, NBC affiliate WVTM 13 reported. The capital murder charge relates to the fatal shooting of Doss.

WVTM 13 also reported that Taylor is facing a first-degree robbery charge for allegedly using a firearm to carjack another woman.

The third charge relates to Taylor’s mental health condition; The grand jury noted that he was legally prohibited from owning a firearm because he was “mentally unstable,” according to WVTM 13.

A civil lawsuit was filed on Taylor’s behalf in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court by her mother, Amanda Taylor, WBRC 6 News reported. The legal document alleges that Taylor came to DCH “for the purpose of urgent psychiatric evaluation and treatment,” but allegedly “declined” and “refused” emergency screening, stabilization, treatment, or admission.

In response to the legal action, DCH released the following statement to WBRC 6: “We would like to state that Mr. Taylor never entered our emergency department or any other hospital facility, was never registered as a patient, and never sought DCH’s care on May 12, 2026. We will allow legal action to address the remaining facts in due course.”