A recent college graduate who had just landed her childhood dream job was allegedly shot and k!lled by her boyfriend’s father, who was arrested more than two months later over the fatal shooting.
Whitney Robeson was found with a gunshot wound inside a home in Trussville on March 7 at about 9:30 p.m. She was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was later pronounced de@d, police said.
More than two months later, police arrested Jeffrey Scott Towers, the father of Robeson’s boyfriend, on a manslaughter charge on Monday, May 11, following what the Trussville Police Department described as an “extensive investigation” into the shooting.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office ruled the shooting accidental, although authorities have not released details about how Towers allegedly fired the shot that k!lled his son’s girlfriend, according to reports.
Robeson, who was from Virginia, graduated from Auburn University in May 2025 with a degree in interior design. Just weeks before her d£ath, she had started her dream job as a trade consultant with Restoration Hardware, according to her obituary.
“Whitney was hitting her stride exactly the way we always knew she would. In her new role as a Trade Consultant at Restoration Hardware, this marvelous, independent woman was on the cusp of her successful career in interior design: the job she had always wanted since she was a little girl watching HGTV,” her obituary stated.
Her family said Robeson was “grounded by her faith” and was also a member of the Delta Gamma sorority during college.
“Whitney lived with inimitable grace; keen, quiet attentiveness and loyalty; boundless generosity and an uncanny way of always knowing just what she needed to do,” the statement added.
Towers was booked into the Jefferson County Jail and later released on a $30,000 bond.
