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== 2002 shooting of John Gilbride ==
After John Africa's death, his widow, Alberta, married John Gilbride, Jr. Together they had a child, Zackary Africa, before divorcing in 1999. By 2002, Gilbride had no longer supported MOVE and resettled in [[Maple Shade, New Jersey|Maple Shade]], [[New Jersey]]. Alberta Africa was living in [[Cherry Hill, New Jersey]], with their son, John Zachary Gilbride, as he was legally known.<ref name="AP"/>

On September 10, 2002, in the course of their bitter custody dispute, Gilbride testified in court that MOVE had threatened to kill him.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 23, 2003 |last=Kinney |first=Monica Yant |title=Talks of threats before slaying |work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |via=Religion News blog |url=http://www.religionnewsblog.com/4817/talks-of-threats-before-slaying |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116000139/https://www.religionnewsblog.com/4817/talks-of-threats-before-slaying |url-status=live }}</ref> The court granted Gilbride partial custody of Zackary, allowing him unsupervised visits.

On September 27, shortly after midnight and prior to Gilbride's first visitation date with Zackary, an unknown assailant shot and killed him as he sat in a car parked outside his New Jersey apartment complex.<ref name="AP">{{cite news |url=https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/Man-in-Custody-Battle-Shot-to-Death-10572580.php |first=Geoff |last=Mulvihill |agency=Associated Press |title=Man in Custody Battle Shot to Death |work=Edwardsville Intelligencer |date=September 26, 2002 |access-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815200827/https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/Man-in-Custody-Battle-Shot-to-Death-10572580.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Investigators did not name a suspect and the Burlington County Police did not release ballistics information.<ref name="yanney2">{{cite news |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/monica_yant_kinney/20120919_Monica_Yant_Kinney__Murder_of_ex-MOVE_member_remains_a_mystery.html |first=Monica Yant |last=Kinney |title=Murder of ex-MOVE member remains a mystery |work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=September 19, 2012 |access-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815201108/http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/monica_yant_kinney/20120919_Monica_Yant_Kinney__Murder_of_ex-MOVE_member_remains_a_mystery.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The case remains unsolved. A MOVE spokeswoman initially said that the U.S. government had assassinated Gilbride in order to frame MOVE.<ref name="yanney2"/> His ex-wife Alberta Africa denied that the murder had occurred. She said in 2009 that Gilbride "is out hiding somewhere".<ref name="yanney2"/> Tony Allen, an ex-MOVE member, says that MOVE murdered Gilbride.<ref name="yanney2"/>

In 2012, ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' reported that Gilbride had told friends and family that he had recorded incriminating evidence in a notebook as security against a "hit" by MOVE. Gilbride said he had placed the notebook inside a locker for safekeeping. The [[Burlington County]] Prosecutor's Office declined to follow up on the report.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-blinq/A-clue-hidden-in-a-lost-locker.html |title=A clue hidden in a lost locker? |work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |first=Monica Yant |last=Kinney |date=September 19, 2012 |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-date=June 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606223745/http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-blinq/A-clue-hidden-in-a-lost-locker.html |url-status=live }}</ref>