A Pennsylvania man who plead guilty to fatally shooting 18-year-old #BiancaRoberson in a road-rage incident on a Chester County highway was sentenced Thursday to 20 to 40 years in state prison, the statutory maximum for third-degree murder. #DavidDesper ,29, shot Roberson in the head in West Goshen Township last year after they jockeyed for space on a highway merger. CBS Philly reports, the emotional sentencing lasted several hours as Roberson’s family, prosecutors, and the judge were in tears. Even Desper’s defense attorney could not hold back tears. During sentencing, prosecutors talked about the day Roberson was killed in June 2017. They say it started as one of the happiest days of her life, as the recent Bayard Rustin High School graduate went shopping with her mother and grandmother at a West Chester Walmart for college supplies. Roberson’s mother told her daughter to drive straight home because she had a surprise for her, but she never made it because she was gunned down by Desper in a road rage shooting, prosecutors said. Bianca's father asked Desper, “Why did you pull that trigger and kill my daughter? Was it because she was young? Because she was black? Because she was a woman? Because you wanted to go first in a lane?” Desper later told the court he “was just afraid. Her car swerved at me a few times, I squeezed the gun, couldn’t believe what happened. Though, ‘Why is this happening to me?'” At the end of the hearing, the judge said in a tearful statement, “I listened to everything that was presented here. Mr. Desper, I believe you are sorry. I believe you would take it all back if you could. I don’t believe you were afraid. If you are afraid when driving, you hit the break.” The Desper and Roberson families left the court agreeing with the judge’s sentencing. Via: #CBSPhilly https://www.instagram.com/p/BrWIFJmgZVM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tyrk51jg45pd
