On August 13, 2017, 57-year-old Steven Gibby Gibbons was walking home from the Aldi near Meyer Boulevard and Troost Avenue after taking the bus. As he walked the final block toward his residence in the 1100 block of East 67th Street, a gunman approached from behind and shot him in the back of the head. He was hospitalized on life support and died of his injuries on August 15, 2017.

Surveillance from the bus and street showed a man following Gibbons and captured him drinking from a bottle of iced tea and smoking a cigarette. Investigators recovered those items and obtained DNA that tied a suspect to Gibbons’ killing and to another unsolved murder, John Palmer. Authorities arrested Fredrick Demond Scott, who was 22 at the time, and charged him with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in Gibbons’ death; he has been charged in five additional killings linked to the same pattern.

The prosecution has faced lengthy competency evaluations for Scott, with periods of involuntary commitment and re-evaluation. A judge ruled him fit to proceed in July 2025 and a trial date is scheduled for September 2026. Did anyone in the community know Steven or notice someone following people near East 67th Street that summer?