PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Keith Gibson, the man charged in the killings of four people in 2021 — including his own mother, two store clerks and a Dunkin’ manager — was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday of four counts of first-degree murder.
During a week of testimony, prosecutors showed jurors physical evidence, videos and a revolver that they said tied Gibson to the three “horrific” incidents and four murders.
In all four homicides, prosecutors said the victims were shot in the head, and each motive was robbery.
The series of slayings started on Jan. 28, 2021. Eric Flores and Roy Caban were found shot execution style inside their store, Al-Madinah Traders, along Germantown Avenue.
Roy Caban Courtesy of family
About a week later, Gibson’s mother, Christine Gibson, was fatally shot inside a community center office along Ridge Avenue. Prosecutors said he killed her to try to get her life insurance money.
Christine Gibson Courtesy of family
Then in June of that year, Christine Lugo was working her manager shift at Dunkin’ in North Philadelphia when she was killed during an armed robbery.
Christine Lugo with her daughter and son Courtesy of family
The detective who handled Lugo’s homicide investigation testified that police pushed out pictures and video of the suspect. Eventually, they got a call from Delaware authorities who thought a murder in Wilmington seemed similar to Lugo’s. In both cases, female managers were fatally shot in the head in the back office of their stores.
Wilmington police sent the detective a picture of a suspect they believed looked like Lugo’s killer — the photo was of Keith Gibson.
Days after Lugo was killed, Keith Gibson was arrested in Wilmington after a Rite-Aid store clerk put a tracker in a bag of cash he stole during an armed robbery. Investigators also found a revolver — the gun prosecutors said was the one used in all three incidents.
An expert testified that bullets and fragments from three of the shootings matched that gun, and a fragment found at the shooting of Flores and Caban had similar characteristics, though it couldn’t be exactly matched.
Keith Gibson will spend the rest of his life in prison. He is already serving seven life sentences for killing two people in Delaware during robberies.
