The Longview Police Department on Thursday made an arrest in connection with the 2015 homicide of Devyn Gibson.
According to police, the killing was considered a cold case until recently, when new evidence surfaced.
Detectives took 25-year-old Ceylan Bridges, of Longview, into custody without incident, and he was booked into the Gregg County Jail on a warrant for murder.
An autopsy showed that Gibson, 18, had seven gunshot wounds.
His body was found about 1 a.m. Sept. 20, 2015, near Sibley Street and Rothrock Drive in Central Longview.
In an interview with the News-Journal after his son’s death, Gibson’s father, Demetrice Watson, spoke of his son’s future plans, saying, “My son was more advanced. He has a brother in Tyler going to school at Texas College, playing college football on a great level. He had planned to go to Tyler and be at that school with his brother. So, gang bangers don’t have these types of plans. Gang bangers have the plans of hell or jail. My son had the plans to be somebody. He wanted to go to college.”
Watson said at the time that he suspected whoever is responsible for his son’s death robbed Gibson because he was well dressed and had money from his job.