D’Monterrio Gibson, a Black FedEx driver, has filed a $5 million lawsuit against his former employer and the two white men he alleges chased him down and shot at him while he was making deliveries in Brookhaven, Miss., almost two years ago. FedEx fired Gibson in July.
Gibson alleged that the men who attacked him on Jan. 24, 2022, were father and son duo Gregory Case and Brandon Case. Their trial on conspiracy and first-degree murder charges ended in mistrial in August 2023 after a judge discovered a Brookhaven police officer had withheld evidence from the prosecution and defense.
On Aug. 21, Gibson’s lawyer, Carlos Moore, sent the Mississippi Free Press a copy of an email FedEx had sent Gibson saying his “employment with FedEx was terminated effective 7/26/23” and that the business had tried to send him a termination letter on July 31. Emily Wagster Pettus from the Associated Press first reported his firing.
Click the screencap to read D’Monterrio Gibson’s complaint.
The lawsuit, which Gibson’s attorney filed in the Lincoln County Circuit Court, also names the Flowood, Miss.-based asphalt construction company Adcamp Inc., as a defendant. Gibson’s lawsuit claims Adcamp supplied the truck that he says Gregory Case drove while chasing him and that the company is negligent for supplying him with a vehicle. None of the bullets struck Gibson, though he did share photos with the Mississippi Free Press showing bullet holes in his delivery van and in some of the packages.
“These violations caused severe pain and suffering to D’Monterrio Gibson on January 24th, 2022,” the lawsuit says.
It also says that Gibson “was acting within the scope of his employment with Defendant FedEx” when Brandon Case and Gregory Case allegedly harassed and shot at him.
The FedEx employee returned to work the next day, despite experiencing “severe panic and anxiety from the subject incident” and told the company that he felt uncomfortable making his usual deliveries, the lawsuit says. He and a supervisor went to the Brookhaven Police Department for Gibson to make an official statement. After that, the two returned to FedEx’s Richland, Miss.,