Early on Friday, December 19, 2025, a fight at Big Woody’s Sports Bar and Restaurant on Hanover Avenue in Allentown escalated into a shooting. First responders found three people with gunshot wounds; 34-year-old David Jeremy Gibbs was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital‑Muhlenberg and pronounced dead at 2:40 a.m. The Lehigh County Coroner ruled the manner of death a homicide due to gunshot injuries. The other two victims were expected to survive.

Gibbs, who performed as David True, was a local musician in the Lehigh Valley hip‑hop scene and a father of three. Friends said he had been active online and social before the shooting and that his recent bereavement—his mother’s death in January 2024—weighed on his circle. Police and the Lehigh County Homicide Task Force opened an investigation and said they believed no one in the wider public remained in danger; no suspect or arrest details were released in the days after the incident.

If anyone witnessed the altercation at Big Woody’s or has information about the shooting, please share what is known with investigators.