Former Metropolitan Police Department Sergeant Enis Jevric, aged 42, has been sentenced to a term of 60 months in prison following his guilty plea for the fatal shooting of 27-year-old An’Twan Gilmore in August 2021. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced the sentence along with the fact that Jevric will serve an additional five years of supervised release after his imprisonment.
Back in February 2024, Jevric had admitted to using excessive and deadly force in violation of Gilmore's constitutional rights. The altercation occurred when Jevric and seventeen other officers responded to the scene of a car stopped at an intersection with its driver, Gilmore, asleep at the wheel, a handgun visible on his person. Efforts to wake Gilmore resulted in the vehicle moving forward, prompting Jevric to discharge his firearm ten times, hitting Gilmore thrice and leading to the motorist's death. No other officer present fired their weapon.
The outcome of this fatal encounter was established as a clear breach of the Fourth Amendment, which guards against unreasonable force by police. According to the files from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Jevric's reaction was "an extreme risk of death" to Gilmore and constituted "a gross deviation from a reasonable standard of care." His actions on that early morning in 2021 were self-confessed as willful and in reckless disregard of Mr. Gilmore’s rights.
The investigation of the case was led by the FBI’s Washington Field Office and the FBI Laboratory, including the Laboratory Shooting Reconstruction Team. Such investigative efforts culminated in Jevric's acknowledgment of his conduct and subsequent sentencing, which reflects a growing concern for the standard of law enforcement practices involving the use of force.
