A Mississippi judge declared a mistrial in the criminal case against two white men who chased and shot at a Black FedEx worker as he was delivering packages in January 2022.
The ruling, in which the judge cited errors by a detective in the investigation, comes a week after a judge dismissed a $5 million federal lawsuit filed on behalf of D’Monterrio Gibson against FedEx and others reportedly over racial discrimination.
District Attorney Dee Bates urged the jury to find Brandon Case, 38, and his father, Gregory Charles Case, 59, guilty of the attempted murder in the first degree of Gibson on Jan. 24, 2022. She argued the Case men collaborated to harm Gibson by chasing and shooting at his vehicle until he was out of their community in Brookhaven.
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On the day of the incident, Gibson was completing his assigned route. Though the vehicle he was in was not a FedEx van, it had been rented by the company, and he was wearing his official company uniform. The name Hertz was on the vehicle three times.
The DA says after Gibson delivered a package to a residence on the Cases’ dead-end street, the father jumped in a pickup truck and tried to impede the van’s exit. Brandon Case then emerged holding a gun, aiming at the victim.
Gibson tried to maneuver around the pickup truck, but the van was struck three times, damaging the vehicle and the packages inside.
During a press conference, Gibson said he observed a white pickup truck pulling away from another residence connected to the property where he was delivering the package. When he tried to leave the driveway, the person in the vehicle made an effort to block him.
Gibson says he tried to escape, but the white pickup truck continued to pursue him until he reached Interstate 55 near Brookhaven. Once on the interstate, the driver of…
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