Riviera Beach police: Man shoots girlfriend, second woman
RIVIERA BEACH — Gibson Paul, a three time resident of state prison, now has a new entry on his record: murder suspect.
U.S. Marshalls arrested Paul, 29, this afternoon in Johnson County, Tenn., in the death of his 33-year-old girlfriend, Tomicka Peterson.
Paul is charged with shooting Peterson and a second woman "for unknown reasons" at Peterson's home in the 500 block of West Sixth Street. Peterson died overnight, police spokeswoman Rose Anne Brown confirmed this morning.
She said the second woman, who police have declined to identify, is expected to recover,
U. S. Marshals were called in just after the shooting because Paul "made statements to witnesses that he intended to kill any police officer who tried to arrest him" and "was also heard saying he would not be taken alive," Brown said in a release.
It took just 24 hours for authorities to track Paul to the northeast corner of Tennessee.
Riviera Beach police had received a 911 call about the shooting around 3 p.m. Monday, and a short time later, someone had driven up to the emergency room at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach with the two injured women, Brown said.
She said she did not have additional details about the circumstances of the shooting and did not want to say how many times or where each woman was struck because of the ongoing investigation.
State records show Paul was in state prison from 2001 to 2002, from July 2007 to July 2008, and from September 2008 to October 2009, on a conviction from Ocala's Marion County for battery on a detention worker and Palm Beach County convictions for grand theft auto and possession of a weapon by a felon.
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