Sam Joseph Gibson III, 48, was shot and killed on May 13, 2020, at a home on the 1800 block of Cherry in Mount Vernon, Illinois. A distraught woman went to the Mount Vernon police department that afternoon and reported the shooting and that another man at the residence had attacked her and taken her phone. Officers arriving at the scene saw Sam’s 31-year-old son Traviel Gibson running into the home and found Sam deceased on the front porch.

Sam Gibson was born June 10, 1971, in Chicago and worked for R.J. Corman Switching Co. at the Toyota plant in Princeton, Indiana. He is survived by his mother Barbara Gibson, siblings Marilyn Levy and Donna Hall, nine children and eight grandchildren. The case shocked the local community and raised questions about the circumstances leading to the shooting.

Did anyone in Mount Vernon know Sam or the family and have information about what happened that afternoon?