Former Police Sergeant Sentenced To Federal Prison For 2021 Shooting Death Of A D.C. Motorist

Monday, September 2, 2024, 6:30 A.M. ET. 3 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,

WASHINGTON, DC.- On Thursday, August 29, 2024, Enis Jervic, 42, a former Police Sergeant with the Metropolitan Police Department, appeared in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for the August 2021 shooting death of 27-year-old An’Twan Gilmore on a Washington D.C. street.

     According to U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, on February 23, 2024, Jervic pleaded guilty in U.S. District in Washington D.C. to violating Mr. Gilmore’s constitutional rights by using unnecessary and excessive force, Jervic also entered a guilty plea to a charge of involuntary manslaughter under D.C. law statutes. 

     In addition to the 60-month federal prison term, upon his release from his custodial term, Jervic will be required to serve five years of supervised release.

     According to documents filed with the court, Jervic willfully used unconstitutionally excessive and unreasonable force by shooting Mr. Gilmore. Specifically, on August 25, 2024, shortly before 3:00 a.m., Jervic and an additional 17 D.C. Metropolitan Police Officers responded to New York Avenue and Florida Avenue N.E intersection on a report of a man asleep in the driver’s seat of a car stopped at the intersection.

Discovered Gilmore Asleep In The Car

     When Police Officers approached the car and found a man, later identified as Mr. Gilmore, asleep in the driver’s seat of the vehicle stopped at the intersection, officers noticed that Gilmore had a handgun tucked into the waistband of his pants.

     After the Police had been at that location for around 10 minutes and cleared the surrounding area of cars and pedestrians, Jervic approached the vehicle and directed a police officer to knock on the vehicle’s widow to wake up Mr. Gilmore. When Gilmore awoke, the car moved forward several feet, stopped briefly, and then moved forward again.

     As the car moved forward, Jervic fired his service weapon four times at the vehicle. The vehicle then rolled down New York Avenue, and Jervic fired six additional times at the car, striking Mr. Gilmore three times. Mr. Gilmore later succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased at an area hospital.

Other Officers Did Not Fire

     During the incident, no other officers fired their service weapons at Mr. Gilmore, and when Gilmore was removed from the car, the handgun was in the same position in Gilmore’s waistband of his pants, underneath a buckled seat belt.

     During his allocation on February 23, 2024, Jervic admitted that his conduct constituted unconstitutional and unreasonable force and that he acted willfully and recklessly in disregard of Mr. Gilmore’s rights. Jervic further revealed that his conduct created an extreme risk of death for Gilmore and fell outside the parameters of standard care and training protocol.