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MANHUNT: High school graduate gunned down on highway

Bianca Roberson, 18, was killed earlier this week in an apparent road rage incident in Pennsylvania.

WEST GOSHEN, Pa. — A multi-state manhunt is ongoing after a recent high school graduate was shot and killed in an apparent road rage incident earlier this week on a highway outside Philadelphia.

Bianca Roberson, 18, was shot in West Goshen on Wednesday, the Chester County District Attorney's office said. Her car veered off the road and was later found in a ditch, he said. The shooter fled in a red pickup truck.

Roberson had just graduated from Bayard Rustin High School in West Chester. She was headed to Jacksonville University in Florida in the fall.

"Bianca had her whole life ahead of her," said West Chester Area School District Superintendent Jim Scanlon. "What should be a time of great joy and celebration in a young person's life has turned into a horrible tragedy."

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"She was a good girl, honor roll student, looking forward to going to college," said her father, Rodney Roberson.

District Attorney Thomas Hogan called the shooting road rage and a "totally random, senseless act of violence."

Authorities said the driver is man of medium build, 30 to 40 years old with blond or light brown hair. His truck was described as a small, red Chevrolet pickup with faded paint.

Hogan made a public plea for the driver to come forward immediately, and added that police are hunting him across three states.

"To that man who fired that shot, turn yourself in now," Hogan said. "Every second you are out there you are only making this worse for yourself and making this worse for this young lady's family."

Anyone with information is asked to call West Goshen police.

"Every cop in three states is looking for this red pickup truck," Hogan said.

Police are saying that the pickup truck is possibly a Chevy, and the driver is considered armed and extremely dangerous.

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