Patrolman Allen William Gibson, Jr., 25, was killed on April 25, 1998, while on foot patrol behind the Waverly Village Apartments in Waverly, Virginia. Gibson, who had been with the Waverly Police Department for two months, encountered two men he suspected were conducting a drug transaction. An altercation followed and Gibson was shot once in the abdomen with his own service weapon; the bullet struck the edge of his bullet-resistant vest. He was taken to a nearby hospital but died of his wounds. He left a wife and an eight-year-old daughter.

Investigators identified two suspects, Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne; one was arrested the day after the shooting and the other shortly thereafter. Both were initially charged with capital murder but later entered guilty pleas: on December 8, 1999, the shooter pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and received five years, and the other pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact and received 12 months. In 2002 both men were convicted in federal court on drug charges linked to the incident and sentenced to life without parole. As of 2024 one of the men, Terence Richardson, had been in court presenting new evidence in an effort to clear his name.

Did anyone in the Waverly area have contact with Patrolman Gibson or information about the night of April 25, 1998?