A former police officer in the nation's capital received a five-year prison sentence on Thursday for the fatal shooting of a 27-year-old man who was asleep in the driver's seat of a running car at a traffic light, The Associated Press reports. Former Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Enis Jevric, 42, pleaded guilty in February to involuntary manslaughter and using unconstitutional, excessive force in the August 2021 shooting death of 27-year-old An’Twan Gilmore in Washington, D.C. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss also sentenced Jevric to five years of supervised release after his prison term, according to Justice Department prosecutors.
More than a dozen officers were on the scene with Jevric, who had a ballistics shield when he approached the driver’s side door. He told another officer to knock on the car’s windows, which jolted Gilmore awake with a confused look. Video from police body cameras shows both of Gilmore’s hands on the steering wheel. When the car inched forward, no other officer fired a shot. But Jevric fired four times into the car and then fired six more shots as it rolled down the closed-off street, prosecutors said. Gilmore had a gun but it was still tucked in his waistband, underneath his buckled seat belt, when police entered the car. Prosecutors recommended a seven-year prison sentence for Jevric. Jevric had been a police officer in Washington since 2007. His attorney, Christopher Macchiaroli, had requested a sentence of home confinement without prison time. “Sgt. Jevric has spent the better part of his life helping people, not hurting people, protecting life, not taking life,” the defense lawyer wrote.
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