Auburn grad who just landed dream job allegedly shot and killed by boyfriend's father in Alabama

An Alabama antheral is facing charges 2 months aft allegedly shooting his son's 22-year-old girlfriend, who was a caller Auburn University postgraduate and had conscionable landed her imagination occupation arsenic an interior designer.

Whitney Harlow Robeson, a 22-year-old Virginia native, died connected March 7 from a gunshot coiled astatine a location connected Deer Trail successful Trussville, Alabama, astir 15 miles northeast of Birmingham.

Police responded astir 9:30 p.m. First responders rushed her to a hospital, wherever she was pronounced dormant conscionable implicit an hr later.

This week, Trussville constabulary announced an "extensive investigation" led them to the apprehension of her boyfriend's father, Jeffrey Scott Towers, 54, connected a complaint of reckless manslaughter. Public records bespeak helium and his son, besides an Auburn alumnus, some unrecorded astatine the Deer Trail address.

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Jeffrey Towers, a 54-year-old from Trussville, Alabama, is charged with manslaughter successful the shooting decease of 22-year-old Whitney Robeson. (Jefferson County Sheriff's Office)

Court records person not revealed details of the shooting oregon grounds surrounding the charges against Towers, different than to allege helium changeable Robeson.

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In a statement, Towers' attorneys John Amari and Dain Stewart called Robeson's decease a "tragic event."

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Whitney Robeson, 22, studied interior plan astatine Auburn earlier getting a occupation astatine RH, formerly known arsenic Restoration Hardware. (Instagram/@whitneyharlowdesign)

"We cognize that the facts volition amusement that Mr. Towers has nary transgression history, has been a productive and upstanding national for his full beingness and is not blameworthy of these charges," they wrote.

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Robeson's decease was initially reported arsenic accidental to the Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner's Office, according to AL.com.

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In an online obituary, Robeson's household revealed she had wanted to enactment successful interior plan since her childhood, inspired by shows connected HGTV.

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Whitney Robeson, a 22-year-old Auburn University postgraduate from Richmond, Virginia, was changeable and killed connected March 7 astatine a location successful Trussville, Alabama. (Instagram/@whitneyharlowdesign)

After graduating summa cum laude from Auburn's interior plan program, she got a occupation arsenic a commercialized advisor for RH, formerly known arsenic Restoration Hardware, doing conscionable that.

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She grew up successful Richmond, wherever she had been a lifeguard and a clerk astatine boutique shops downtown, according to the obituary.

Towers has been freed aft posting $30,000 bail. He's owed backmost successful tribunal connected July 22.