WF truck driver, 59 beaten to death on side of Hueytown, AL Interstate by the negro - UPDATE "Trump made him do it"

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Suspect charged in brutal beating death of female truck driver on side of Interstate 59/20
Updated Aug 31, 12:45 PM


A suspect is being held on more than $1.5 million bond in the horrific beating death of a female truck driver on Interstate 59/20.

Charles Levester Gipson, 39, is charged with murder in the Aug. 19 killing of 53-year-old Christine Summers. Summers was driving a truck for RTR Transportation in Tennessee. She was a wife, mother, grandmother and had been driving a truck for about 30 years.

According to authorities and family members, Summers was on the phone with her husband, Lamer, with whom she used to team drive, when she said she saw someone or something in the road and thought she should stop to make sure she hadn’t hit something. She hung up with her husband and stopped to check and called 911.

When she got out to check, Gipson was standing there, authorities and family members say, and he attacked her, brutally and unprovoked. Summers was still on the phone with a 911 operator and the killing was reportedly captured on the 911 call.

Within moments, Summers’ body was discovered - about 3:20 a.m. that Wednesday - on the side of the Interstate 59/20 near the Valley Road exit. Truck driver Ozell Johnson said he was driving on the interstate on his way to deliver a load to the Mercedes plant. He said he saw another 18-wheeler on the side of the roadway and looked, as he always does, to make sure it was about to pull out in his path.

It was then he noticed a woman – now identified as Summers – on the ground near her truck. He stopped and approached her to ask if she was OK, but she was unresponsive and bloodied.

He then called 911. Johnson said he assumed the woman had fallen from the truck’s catwalk. The truck door was locked, and Summers had the truck key and a flashlight beside her.

Summers was pronounced dead on the scene.

Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the interstate, though the State Bureau of Investigation assumed the lead in the probe.

Within the hour, Gipson was taken into custody. Hueytown Police Chief Mike Yarbrough said his officers received a call of a man in the middle of Allison Bonnett Memorial Drive. The chief said police quickly determined he was a suspect in a homicide, though he couldn’t elaborate. They knew SBI was working that homicide and took Gipson to the Hueytown City Jail to await questioning by state agents.

Once at the jail, Yarbrough said Gipson attacked two Hueytown officers. They received minor injuries.

After SBI obtain the murder warrant against Gipson, he was taken to the Jefferson County Jail on Aug. 22 where he has remained since his arrest.


https://www.hazelgreenfuneralhome.com/obituary/Christine-Summers


Christine R Summers
September 20, 1966 ~ August 19, 2020 (age 53)

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Frank Green
5 days ago
Words escape me. My mind cannot even wrap around what has happened. Christine Summers was a beautiful, hardworking, wife, mom, and grandmother. She and her husband, my first cousin, Lamar, have been truck drivers for, at least 30 years.


https://cdllife.com/2020/suspect-charged-in-brutal-murder-of-female-truck-driver/

Charles Levester Gipson, 39, has been charged with murder in connection with the death of 53 year old semi truck driver Christine Summers.

 

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Birmingham trucker murder suspect: Trump made me ‘kill a white lady’

Charles Levester Gipson, 39 is charged with murder in the Aug. 19 killing of 53-year-old Christine Summers, a wife, mother, and grandmother who had been driving a truck for about 30 years.

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Birmingham trucker murder suspect: Trump made me ‘kill a white lady’​

• Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 4:21 p.m.

Christine Summers (Contributed)

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• Carol Robinson | crobinson@al.com

A naked and bloody suspect in the beating death of a female trucker on a Birmingham street told officers who arrested him that he had “killed a white lady” and President Trump made him do it, according to testimony Wednesday in a Jefferson County courtroom.

Charles Levester Gipson, 39 is charged with murder in the Aug. 19 killing of 53-year-old Christine Summers. Summers was driving a truck for RTR Transportation in Tennessee. She was a wife, mother, grandmother and had been driving a truck for about 30 years.

Summers was found dead about 3:20 a.m. that Wednesday on the side of Interstate 59/20 near the Valley Road exit. Her dentures had been knocked out of her mouth, and she suffered a fatal head injury. Gipson was taken into custody just over an hour later after callers reported seeing a naked man on Allison Bonnett Memorial Drive.

A preliminary hearing in the case against Gipson was held today before Bessemer Cutoff Circuit Judge David Carpenter. Gipson, however, was not in the courtroom. Carpenter informed the court that the defendant, who also is charged with attacking two police officers and flooding his jail cell, had just recently assaulted a jailer and was too “unstable” and “dangerous” – both to himself and others – to have present in court.

The case is being prosecuted by assistant district attorneys Brent Butler and Jerry Carter. Attorney Victor Revill is representing Gipson. Summer’s disabled husband was watching the proceedings via Zoom from his Tennessee home.

State Bureau of Investigation Agent Vincent Cunningham testified to the chain of events that happened that day. He said he arrived at the I-59/20 scene about 6:15 a.m. to find Summers on her back and covered up near her tractor-trailer with multiple other law enforcement agencies on site, including the Jefferson Count Sheriff’s Office, Alabama State Troopers and Hueytown police. Scrawled in the dirt on the back of the tractor-trailer, Cunningham said, was “Trump 2020.”


The investigation showed that Summers had called 911, telling a dispatcher she had seen a Black male walking on the interstate and thought she may have hit him. While still on the phone with the dispatcher, Summers got out of the truck to investigate. The dispatcher then heard her began to scream, “Get away from me.”

"She never came back to the phone,'' Cunningham testified.

Gipson was taken into custody about 4:30 a.m. by Hueytown police after they had received calls of an unclothed Black male in the roadway. Cunningham testified that arresting officers reported that Gipson was sweating profusely and made “spontaneous” statements about “killing a white woman” and that President Trump had made him do it. Gipson’s right fist was bruised, cut and bleeding and the paramedic who treated him at the scene also reported Gipson making the same statements.

When Hueytown officers tried to move Gipson from a padded cell to an interview room to speak with SBI agents, testimony showed, he fought and injured the two officers – Cpl. Alex Humphries and Officer Justin Hickey. The struggle left Humphries with a black eye and Hickey with a bloodied nose. Gipson is charged with second-degree assault in the attack on the two officers. Humphries testified that Gipson said, “I’m going to kill you,” and “I’m not going to prison.”

Hickey said Gipson "seemed to be very disgruntled with our race…as a white person, he felt we were there to hurt him,'' he said under cross examination by Revill. Hickey said Gipson called them “white mfers” and “said he wanted to kill us.”

Because of the incident, Cunningham could not interview Gipson until the following day. When he did, the agent testified, Gipson told him that somebody named Drew made him strip and took his clothes. Cunningham said they have never corroborated the existence of “Drew.”

Gipson did not tell Cunningham he had killed anyone and said that he injured his fist punching the wall during an argument with his girlfriend. His girlfriend’s mother, who Cunningham said would not allow the investigator into her home, said Gipson did punch a wall but said he wasn’t bleeding from that incident.

Investigators recovered a palm print from the victim’s tractor-trailer that matched Gipson, Cunningham said. Detectives have taken Gipson’s DNA to see if it matched forensic evidence – including blood spatter from Summers' shirt – but said the results are still in the testing phase. Gipson’s clothing was never recovered. He still had his cell phone with him, however, when he was arrested.

Gipson told Cunningham he was on the interstate that night trying to get to his mother’s home in Tuscaloosa. He told the investigator various stories, including that someone was trying to kill his family. "He was just rambling all over the place,'' Cunningham said.

Gipson is also charged with destruction of state property after authorities said he used his jail bedding to stop up the toilet in his cell. The flooding caused more than $1,700 in damages to the jail, testimony showed. It was that incident that led Gipson’s $1.5 million bond to be revoked in September.

The judge on Wednesday ordered that there was enough evidence against Gipson for all four charges to be bound over to a grand jury for indictment consideration. He also ordered Gipson be sent to Taylor Hardin for mental competency testing.


Revill said should Gipson be indicted he will plead not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental defect. Jail and court records list addresses for Gipson in Birmingham, Bessemer and Tuscaloosa. He has previous arrests on rape, burglary, and animal cruelty but all of those charges were dismissed.

 

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