A woman convicted in the 2023 shooting death of her on-again, off-again girlfriend at a Homewood apartment complex has been sentenced to prison.

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Shanta Owens on Monday sentenced 25-year-old Tayla Roxann Roland to 52 years in prison.

Roland was convicted in June in the 2023 slaying of 25-year-old Kaziya Nykysha Page.

Page, of Birmingham, was found shot at 11:42 a.m. Saturday, April 8, 2023, in the breezeway of an apartment complex in the 200 block of Robert Jemison Road.

Testimony showed that an argument between the two erupted that morning and Roland shot Page twice in the stomach.

Following the gunfire, Page ran from the apartment and jumped over the second-story railing, which was captured on a neighbor’s Ring doorbell camera and circulated on socia

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