OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) – Officers confirm an 18-year-old high school student was killed Monday morning while walking to a bus stop in Marion County.
Ocala Police Department officers say the Forest High School senior was struck by a car on Northwest Old Blitchton Road near Seventh Street.
School district officials identified the victim as Shannon Rushing. Officers say she died from her injuries. The driver was a 60-year-old woman, officers say.
TV20 spoke with Rushing’s older sister, Shanta Norton has been raising her since their mother died. Norton wants people to remember her as the runny and goofy person she was…