After months of seeking justice, a grand jury has indicted a father and his son after allegedly chasing and shooting at a FedEx driver on January 24 as the driver was dropping off a package in Mississippi.
Gregory Case, 58, and his son Brandon, 35, were indicted on Friday by the Lincoln County grand jury for attempted murder in the first degree, conspiring to commit a crime of murder and shooting into a vehicle. Initially, the two men were only charged with aggravated assault and conspiracy, which sparked racism accusations throughout Brookhaven, 55 miles south of Jackson, Mississippi.
At the time of the shooting, Gibson D’Monterrio, 24, the FedEx driver, wasn’t injured. However, he has fought for nearly 10 months for the two assaulters to be indicted.
“It was a long and tiresome process to get this far; all along, I felt like I was being treated as a suspect rather than a victim,” Gibson said.
Carlos Moore, the victims’ lawyer, compared the incident to Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man who was shot to death in Georgia in 2020.
On January 24, as Gibson was going around his business of delivering packages for FedEx, the father and son allegedly accosted him along their street in Brookhaven. At that time, Gibson was wearing a FedEx uniform and driving an unmarked vehicle rented by the company, when the driver noticed a white pickup truck following him, with the truck driver honking and driving aggressively behind him.
“As I left the driveway, he started driving in the grass, trying to cut me off. That’s when my instincts kicked in, and I swerved around him as I hit on the gas, trying to get out of the neighborhood since I didn’t know what his intentions were,” Gibson said.
As he sped away, he noticed a man standing in the middle of the street with a gun, signaling him to stop. The man, later identified as Gregory Case, fired at him, causing damage to the vehicle and the packages inside.
The son joined his father in the pickup truck as they chased Gibson onto the interstate highway while firing at the victim’s truck several times. After escaping, Gibson called his manager to inform him of what had happened, and the manager told him to return to the FedEx station.
The next day, he went to the Brookhaven Police Department with one of his managers to file a police report.
