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Camas man to serve 12 years for assault

Justin Matthew Gibson pleads guilty to attack on brother, ex-girlfriend

By Emily Gillespie, Columbian Breaking News Reporter
Published: March 31, 2017, 5:36pm

A Camas man was sentenced Friday to serve 12 1/2 years in prison for shooting his brother and beating his ex-girlfriend during an attacked fueled by methamphetamine-induced paranoia.

Justin Matthew Gibson, 37, pleaded guilty in Clark County Superior Court to first-degree assault with a deadly weapon and second-degree assault.

Gibson, who goes by Matthew, “savagely” attacked his younger brother and an ex-girlfriend for fear they were trying to conspire against him and poison him, thinking that was brought on by about a year of methamphetamine use, Deputy Prosecutor Luka Vitasovic said.

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