{"id":24905,"date":"2017-07-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=24905"},"modified":"2017-07-01T09:04:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T13:04:05","slug":"hunt-for-road-rage-gunman-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=24905","title":{"rendered":"Hunt for road rage gunman intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4507\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Roberson-Composite-Jun-30-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4507\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4507\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Roberson-Composite-Jun-30-2017-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A composite drawing of the man sought in the road rage shooting of a West Chester teen, Thursday evening.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Authorities have one message for the man sought across the region for the brutal slaying of a teenage girl in an apparent road rage incident on Route 100 Thursday evening: turn yourself in, or authorities will find you.<\/p>\n<p>West Goshen police circulated a composite drawing of the man, thought to be in his 30s or 40s with blond hair and a medium build. He was seen driving a faded red mid-size pick up, thought to be a Chevy, at the time of the incident.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to police, a merging dispute between the gunman and his victim, 18-year-old\u00a0Bianca Nikol Roberson, escalated quickly, with the gunman pulling out a gun and shooting the young woman in the head, just weeks after she graduated from West Chester Rustin High School. Her car was found, crashed to the side of the road \u2014 in what authorities initially thought was an accident.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4508\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19656964_784719371693668_4701513468049188313_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4508\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4508\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19656964_784719371693668_4701513468049188313_n-350x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A traffic cam shot shows the red pickup driving side by side with Bianca Roberson&#8217;s green Chevy Malibu at lower left.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Police said the gunman fled up the shoulder of Rt. 100, onto US 202 and then exited onto Paoli Pike. Traffic cameras and eyewitness accounts are helping police track his movements after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, friends and family ofthe victim gathered Friday evening for a vigil at the family&#8217;s West Chester home.<\/p>\n<p>The West Goshen Police, as well as the Chester County District Attorney&#8217;s Office is handling the investigation \u2014 with law enforcement agencies across the country on the look out for the gunman.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body field\">\n<p>Anyone with information can also contact the West Goshen Police Department directly\u00a0at 610-696-7400 or via email at <a href=\"mailto:de********@********en.org\" data-original-string=\"HBdi4ehoxeD0yLURc8EuFQ==7501MB0EiIQvgcalk+3aE1cnH4FFaZly\/uTfM+MM8\/AYCk=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span \n                data-original-string='mnjijCdiRpQ4SSheRKtanA==750R4vWtJWDPSHZJFN\/Xi\/ANpuQaRo0IVTWO4APbvKu2Kg='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>de<span class=\"apbct-blur\">********<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">********<\/span>en.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-case-status field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above field-wrapper clearfix\">CrimestoppersPA is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gunman.<\/div>\n<p>The incident has garnered headlines around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have one message for the man sought across the region for the brutal slaying of a teenage girl in an apparent road rage incident on Route 100 Thursday evening: turn yourself in, or authorities will find you. West Goshen police circulated a composite drawing of the man, thought to be in his 30s or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6518,9136,435,9135,1731],"class_list":["post-24905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-gunman","tag-murder","tag-raod-rage","tag-west-goshen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24908,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions\/24908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}