A Miami man who fatally shot a Daytona Beach motorcyclist in a road rage incident two years ago, will spend the next two decades in prison, court documents showed on Thursday.
Ricardo Allen Gibbs, 37, was initially charged with first-degree premeditated murder when he was arrested in September 2022 for the shooting death of Tomas Lee Bouknight, 25. Documents filed in open court Thursday show the murder charge was changed to manslaughter with a firearm.
Gibbs pleaded no contest to the manslaughter charge.
Gibbs, who was out on $100,000 bail, was re-arrested after being sentenced to 20 years in a Florida Department of Corrections prison, documents filed in open court noted.
Daytona Beach police said that on Sept. 24, 2022, Gibbs shot Bouknight in a road rage incident that took place in the 900 block of Vine Street in Daytona Beach.
Gibbs told police that Bouknight had cut him off at a four-way stop intersection at Brentwood Drive and Vine Street, and then headed north on Vine Street and gave him the finger as he sped by, his arrest report states.