The former FedEx delivery driver who was chased and shot at by two white men in Brookhaven, Mississippi, has filed a $5 million lawsuit.
D’Monterrio Gibson — who is Black — was attacked while making his deliveries on Jan. 24, 2022, in a Hertz van.
As widely reported by the Mississippi Free Press and other outlets, Gregory Case and his son, Brandon Case, chased Gibson while he was delivering a package and fired several shots into the delivery van he was driving, hitting several packages in the process.
Gibson was not physically injured in the shooting. Still, according to the lawsuit filed on Nov. 20, he suffered from “depression, stress, anxiety, loss of sleep, and emotional pain and suffering” after FedEx forced him to return to the same route following the attack, this time in a FedEx truck. The company then fired Gibson after he tried to return to the same route but was unable to continue due to emotional distress.
The lawsuit was filed in state court against FedEx, the Cases, and their employer, Adcamp Inc., for civil assault and battery, negligent/intentional infliction of emotional distress, general/gross negligence, negligent entrustment of a motor vehicle and vicarious liability.
“Defendants Brandon and Gregory essentially terrorized, shot at, and chased Mr. Gibson out of the Junior Trial neighborhood of Lincoln County, Mississippi,” the claim reads. “Following the assault of Mr. Gibson, the Defendant, FedEx sent him back to work on the same dangerous route the following day, intentionally inflicting emotional distress on the Plaintiff.”
The lawsuit also contends that Gregory Case used his Adcamp work truck to “chase and hunt down” Gibson after he’d delivered a package. According to the lawsuit, the men chased Gibson while waving a gun and blocking the road. Gibson drove around the men, who then began shooting at him.
Bullet holes were found “inside the back of the van and the packages from…
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