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An’Twan Gilmore

Age : 27

Gender : Male

Race : Black

Date : 08/25/2021

Location : New York Avenue and Florida Avenue NE

City : Washington

County : District of Columbia

State : District of Columbia

Agency : Metropolitan Police Department

Officer(s) :Enis Jevric

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police while asleep in vehicle during welfare response

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 08/25/2021, shortly before 3:00 a.m., Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to New York Avenue and Florida Avenue NE after receiving a report of a man asleep or unconscious behind the wheel of a vehicle stopped in a traffic lane. The driver was 27-year-old An’Twan Gilmore of Capitol Heights, Maryland. Officers saw a handgun tucked into Gilmore’s waistband while he remained asleep or unconscious in the driver’s seat.
The police response grew to 18 MPD officers. Officers blocked New York and Florida avenues to civilian pedestrian and vehicle traffic and brought a ballistic shield to the scene. Gilmore remained in the vehicle for approximately ten minutes while officers organized around it. The handgun remained tucked in his waistband underneath his buckled seat belt.
MPD Sgt. Enis Jevric approached the vehicle and directed another officer to knock on its windows to wake Gilmore. When Gilmore awakened, his vehicle moved forward several feet and stopped. It then began moving forward again. Jevric opened fire.
Jevric initially fired four rounds at Gilmore’s vehicle. As the vehicle continued rolling away down New York Avenue, Jevric fired another six rounds, for a total of ten shots. No other officer fired. Three of Jevric’s bullets struck Gilmore.
After the vehicle came to rest, officers pulled Gilmore from it while he was bleeding, unconscious and unresponsive. Critically, investigators later established that Gilmore’s handgun had never left his waistband. When officers removed him from the vehicle after Jevric shot him, the gun remained exactly where police had first observed it—tucked into his waistband beneath his fastened seat belt.
Gilmore was transported to a hospital and died from the police gunshot wounds. The shooting was captured on police body-worn cameras. The footage showed officers surrounding the vehicle behind the ballistic shield before waking Gilmore and Jevric firing as Gilmore’s vehicle moved away.
The case eventually developed into something comparatively rare in fatal police shootings: a federal criminal prosecution of the officer. On 03/07/2023, a federal grand jury indicted Jevric on charges arising from Gilmore’s killing, including a federal civil-rights violation and second-degree murder.
On 02/23/2024, Jevric pleaded guilty in federal court to willfully violating Gilmore’s Fourth Amendment right to be free from excessive force and also pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter under District of Columbia law. As part of his plea, Jevric admitted that his use of deadly force against Gilmore was unconstitutional, excessive and unreasonable. He admitted acting willfully and in reckless disregard of Gilmore’s constitutional rights.
Following Jevric’s guilty plea, MPD reported that he was on indefinite suspension without pay and announced that its Internal Affairs Division would conduct its administrative investigation now that the criminal investigation had concluded.
On 08/29/2024, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss sentenced former Sgt. Enis Jevric to 60 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Federal prosecutors emphasized that Gilmore never removed the gun from his waistband and that Jevric was the only one among the 18 responding officers who opened fire.
The FBI Washington Field Office conducted the federal investigation with extensive assistance from the FBI Laboratory, including its Shooting Reconstruction Team. The federal prosecution established considerably more detail than MPD’s initial 2021 public account, including the exact number of shots Jevric fired, the fact that no other officer fired, the location of Gilmore’s handgun throughout the encounter, and Jevric’s subsequent admission that his use of deadly force was unconstitutional.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/former-mpd-sergeant-sentenced-60-months-prison-fatally-shooting-dc-motorist
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/mpd-sergeant-pleads-guilty-federal-civil-rights-violation-fatal-shooting-dc-motorist
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/mpd-sergeant-charged-federal-civil-rights-violation-and-second-degree-murder
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/mpd-officer-involved-shooting-new-york-avenue-and-florida-avenue-northeast
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/mpd-statement-regarding-plea-sergeant-fatal-2021-shooting
https://apnews.com/article/enis-jevric-antwan-gilmore-police-shooting-c48e817a8a3cb4d080afdd3bf8135e0e