Cocoa homicide victim’s mother says witnesses are too afraid of ‘street justice’ to come forward Mother begs for answers in son’s death Tags: COCOA, Fla. – Another year has gone by since her son’s death and Anita Gibson still doesn’t know who shot him. The Cocoa Police Department said Gibson’s son, 36-year-old Jonte Thomas, was with two friends driving on Fiske Boulevard after a Cocoa High School football championship game on Dec. 9, 2016 when someone in another car shot at them. [TRENDING: Thomas spent months in the hospital before he died on May 1, 2017. Thursday would have been Thomas’ birthday and to mark the occasion, Gibson once again implored members of the community to cooperate with authorities if they know what happened to her son.