Miami man accused of murdering trans woman was on probation. His criminal past is lengthy
About a week before police say Gregory Gibert beat a trans woman to death Tuesday in front of the Miami City Ballet in Miami Beach, he started a long probation stint after serving a year in jail for aggravated assault, court records reveal. And because of his extensive criminal history, he has been classified as a “habitual violent offender.”
On April 17, Gibert was sentenced to one year in prison and four years of probation for aggravated assault and attempted robbery stemming from an incident the year before. Since 2023, he had already spent 377 days in Miami-Dade County Corrections, according to court documents. His months in jail were counted as time served and the 53-year-old Miami man subsequently began his probation term.
Six days later, surveillance video would capture Gibert bludgeoning 37year-old Andrea Doria
Dos Passos with a pipe, pummeling her head and face while she lay on the ground near the entrance of Miami City Ballet’s Miami Beach building, at 22nd Street and Liberty Avenue, Miami Beach police said.
Gibert has been involved in more than two dozen criminal cases in Florida. What transpired in all of those incidents is unknown because some arrest reports and criminal complaint affidavits were not available.
Here’s a look at cases in which he was convicted:
2023
April 6: Four years probation and one year in prison on charges of aggravated assault and attempted armed robbery. Credited one year of time served.
April 4: One year in prison on charges of cocaine possession and possession of drug paraphernalia. Credited one year of time served.
2022
Sept. 30: Sentenced to about 253 days in prison on charges of cocaine possession, resisting an officer without violence and possession of drug paraphernalia. Given time served credits.
2021
Oct. 29: Sentenced to about 270 days in prison and 90 days of community control on an aggravated-assault charge. Given time served credits.
2000
Sept. 1: Sentenced to three years in prison on a gun charge in Duval County in north Florida.
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crime,” Saunders said.
TRANSGENDER DEATHS IN THE U.S.
Dos Passos is at least the second trans person killed this month in South Florida. On April 3, a woman shot a 36-year-old trans man at The Village at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach. Latoya Arnold died days later at a hospital. Hallandale Beach police have not released the name of the suspect, who knew Arnold.
It was initially called an “isolated incident,” but police have not said what prompted it.
Of 229 hate-crime offenses reported in Florida in 2022, about 24% were motivated by the victim’s sexual orientation, according to the latest Hate Crimes in Florida report from the state attorney general’s office.
In 2023, at least 32 transgender people were killed in the United States, statistics from the Human Rights Campaign show. Of those, 84% of the victims were people of color, 50% were Black transgender women.