TDoR 1998 / 1998 / July / 31 / Tiny Gibson


Tiny Gibson

Age 32 (born 1 Apr 1966)

31 Jul 1998
El Cajon, California (USA)
Stabbed

TDoR list ref: tdor.info/31 Jul 1998/Tiny (Robert Howard Gibson)

Tiny Gibson
Tiny Gibson [photo: students673.ucr.edu]

Tiny suffered multiple stab wounds after being stabbed by Shawn Keith Wilson. When tried he attempted to use the trans panic defence.

A 21-year-old man was ordered yesterday to stand trial on a murder charge in the stabbing death of an El Cajon hairdresser who moonlighted as a female impersonator. Shawn Keith Wilson told police after his arrest that he allowed 32-year-old Robert Howard Gibson to perform a sex act on him, then "tripped out" when he realized that Gibson was a man. Gibson was stabbed 25 times late on the night of July 30. Shortly after Wilson's arrest, [Wilson's friend, Laree] Stemen told detectives that Wilson had told her that a homosexual "tried to rape him."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20676798

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Report added: 17 Feb 2019. Last updated: 12 Nov 2021

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