Joseph Calvin Bihm Jr., a 34-year-old man from Beaumont, was discovered on the morning of October 5, 2025, inside a pickup that had crashed along the 1400 block of Orange Avenue. First responders found that he had been shot; the truck came to rest near King Collegiate Academy, and calls about gunfire began coming in around 7:30–7:40 a.m. Investigators quickly treated the case as a homicide, tracing the final moments of the drive that ended against a tree and the bullet that ended his life.
Detectives identified two suspects within hours. That Sunday night, officers arrested 46-year-old Lamond Hines on a murder charge after a traffic stop, and a judge later set his bond at $2.5 million. A warrant was issued for 31-year-old Murry Gibbs, who at first was believed to be in Beaumont or possibly Houston; late Monday he surrendered to police and was booked into the Jefferson County jail on a first-degree murder charge. With both men in custody, investigators continued assembling the sequence of events that led from the early-morning shooting to the fatal crash.
In the days that followed, relatives painted a picture of a son and brother whose world revolved around work and family, including a 13-year-old boy who now faced a future without his father. They gathered at the crash site, asking anyone who knew what happened to step forward, even as detectives urged tipsters to contact Crime Stoppers while the case moved through the courts. The appeals mixed with the hum of weekday traffic on Orange Avenue, a reminder of how suddenly an ordinary morning had given way to sirens and a life cut short.
