Was Trayson Gibson the Target?

Two years after surviving a shooting in 2022, Trayson Gibson was once again involved in a violent incident, this time resulting in his death.

A neighbour who helped 18-year-old Gibson after the shooting told News 5 that he initially thought the noise was firecrackers, but soon realised that wasn’t the case. “It felt like dynamite,” he said. “But when I heard the lee break in it and then it come on again, I said, no man, that’s a gunshot.”

The neighbour added, “I remember I left my son out there, so I ran outside. When I reach outside, I see the commotion,” he said, before driving Gibson to the hospital.

Another neighbour suspects that Gibson was not the intended target, stating, “The intended target wasn’t him. Definitely, because if it was him they wanted, they could have just passed right here and shot him… he was out here all the while. Even police passed and saw him out here and told him to get on the side…”