On the evening of April 13, 2024, Edward Eddy Gibson, 36, was fatally shot outside Beer Belly’s bar on 5th Street in West Elizabeth, Pennsylvania. Allegheny County 9-1-1 received reports around 10:38 p.m.; first responders found two adult men with gunshot wounds in the bar’s parking lot. Gibson was pronounced dead at the scene and a second victim, Thomas Carlin, was taken to a hospital in stable condition.

A criminal complaint says a witness saw both victims escorting Jacob Snyder, 26, out a side door toward a patio, after which shots were fired and nobody else was on the patio. Snyder was identified as the shooter, fled on foot, and was arrested shortly afterward at a Dollar General in Jefferson Hills. A firearm registered to Snyder was recovered and he was charged with criminal homicide, attempted homicide, and aggravated assault.

Gibson graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School and worked as an auto collision technician and painter. He loved motorcycles and is survived by his two sons, Cameron and Harvey, his father Edward D. Gibson, siblings, girlfriend Brittany Morrow, and other family. Funeral services were held April 18, 2024, at Paul E. Bekavac Funeral Home in Elizabeth. If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about that night, please come forward.