{"id":1382674,"date":"2022-03-15T19:21:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T23:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1382674"},"modified":"2022-03-15T19:21:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T23:21:18","slug":"suspect-in-fatal-attacks-on-homeless-in-d-c-nyc-named-we-got-our-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-in-fatal-attacks-on-homeless-in-d-c-nyc-named-we-got-our-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Fatal Attacks on Homeless in D.C., NYC Named: \u2018We Got Our Man\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuspect-in-fatal-attacks-on-homeless-in-d-c-nyc-named-we-got-our-man%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1382674&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The intense manhunt to find the man suspected of shooting five homeless men, two fatally, has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am here to announce that we got our man,\u201d Washington D.C. Metro Police Department Chief Robert Contee said during a press conference on Tuesday. \u201cAt approximately 2:30 a.m., 30-year-old Gerald Brevard of Southeast D.C. was taken into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The press conference came just hours after the D.C. police announced on social media that they had arrested a man believed to have shot five homeless men in D.C. and New York City.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Newsweek<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/who-gerald-brevard-30-year-old-suspect-dc-nyc-homeless-killings-1688337\"> reported<\/a> on the development:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>During the press conference on Tuesday, Contee said that Brevard had a previous criminal history, with charges in Washington D.C. in 2016 and 2018. Following the most recent arrest on Tuesday, Brevard was charged with first-degree murder, assault with a dangerous weapon and assault with intent to kill.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Associated Press, in 2018, Brevard was arrested in D.C. and pleaded guilty to attempted assault with a deadly weapon. Court records obtained by the AP showed that Brevard was sent to a psychiatric hospital after he was found to be mentally unstable. In 2019, he was deemed fit to stand trial and pleaded guilty to the charges, resulting in a year in prison.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re shocked that someone can commit such a jarring act against a defenseless person,\u201d NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said after the arrest in Daily News report. \u201cJust going up and shooting somebody sleeping, defenseless on the sidewalk \u2026 (he) has some serious issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/nyc-crime\/ny-gunman-caught-targeted-homeless-men-nyc-washington-dc-20220315-bviym7pczna4jd252sxe3x4up4-story.html\">reported<\/a> on the man\u2019s father:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The suspect\u2019s father, also named Gerald, issued a statement describing his namesake son as \u201ca good person\u201d who suffers from untreated mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot speak to the details of the case,\u201d he told the Daily News in a text message. \u2018I can only speak to the issue of the failure of the judicial system identifying that my son suffers from mental illness, but not treating him \u2026 The system has failed regarding the treatment of so many, including my son.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intense manhunt to find the man suspected of shooting five homeless men, two fatally, has been identified. \u201cI am here to announce that we got our man,\u201d Washington D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}