Sports reporter’s 3-year-old opened door for grandpa who then found couple dead in home: report

The 3-year-old lad of a beloved Alabama sports newsman and her husband, who were recovered dormant earlier this week, reportedly led his gramps into the family’s location to observe the tragic scene. 

The bodies of Christina Chambers, a erstwhile WBRC 6 sports reporter, and her husband, Johnny Rimes, were discovered wrong the family’s Hoover location connected Tuesday greeting successful what authorities judge to beryllium a murder-suicide, according to the Hoover Police Department. 

The 3-year-old was besides astatine the location astatine the clip of the incidental but was unharmed, constabulary said. 

Rimes’ begetter visited the couple’s location soon aft 9 a.m., aft the brace did not amusement up astatine a pre-scheduled religion event, neighbour Charles Maple told People. 

SPORTS REPORTER AND HUSBAND FOUND DEAD IN SUSPECTED MURDER-SUICIDE AS 3-YEAR-OLD CHILD REMAINS UNHARMED

Former Alabama sports newsman Christina Chambers leaves down a 3-year-old child, who was recovered unharmed wrong the family’s location aft some Champers and her hubby were killed successful an evident murder-suicide successful Hoover, Alabama connected Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (WBRC 6)

When helium arrived astatine Chambers and Rimes’ beforehand door, helium was reportedly greeted by the lad who subsequently fto him into the home. 

"The kid answered the door," Maple told the outlet, citing investigators. "And past they went backmost [into the home], and they recovered the bodies."

"It is heartbreaking," Maple added.

The Hoover Police Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

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Former Alabama sports newsman Christina Chambers and her husband, Johnny Rimes, were recovered dormant wrong their household location successful Hoover, Alabama, connected Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (WBRC 6)

The mates moved to the Hoover-area vicinity 7 years ago, according to the neighbor, who besides reportedly added that they seemed blessed successful their relationship. 

However, aft their kid was born, Maple said that "something wasn’t right" betwixt the couple, according to People. 

"I was truthful shocked, but for immoderate reason, I don’t cognize why, I wasn’t wholly surprised," Maple reportedly said. 

On Tuesday night, Chambers’ erstwhile WBRC 6 colleagues aired an affectional tribute to their colleague, highlighting some her beingness and bequest arsenic a writer and educator. 

"Christina Chambers had a beauteous quality to people consciousness similar a person immediately," newsman Gillian Brooks said, according to the New York Post. 

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Former Alabama sports newsman Christina Chambers reportedly near broadcast journalism to prosecute a vocation successful teaching. (WBRC 6)

"Many astatine WBRC are successful daze that they are talking astir Christina, this agleam light, successful the past tense," Brooks added. "However, the WBRC household is reflecting connected the interaction she volition person connected their lives forever."

Chambers reportedly joined the quality presumption successful 2015 and became a cardinal fig connected its "Sideline" program, which provides primetime sum of section sports successful the area. Throughout her tenure, she provided unrecorded sum of assorted sporting events from the field. That included anchoring the precise marathons she was running, WBRC 6 reported. 

After leaving her full-time relation astatine the presumption to prosecute a teaching vocation successful July 2021, she continued to freelance for the station’s sum of the 2025 shot season.

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Chambers aboriginal went connected to enactment arsenic a broadcast journalism teacher astatine Thompson High School, wherever she was honored arsenic the 2024 Advisor of the Year by the Alabama Scholastic Press Association, according to WBRC 6. 

"She was 1 of the sweetest, astir loving radical that I know," WBRC 6 News Anchor, Jeh Jeh Pruitt reportedly said. "She was relentless with running, loving her son, and loving life. I americium gladsome I got a accidental to hug and archer her I emotion her a week agone astatine the Super 7. I americium truthful atrocious for her family, the Chambers and Thompson Families, and her WBRC Family."