Suspect in deadly shooting spree of DC, NYC homeless people arrested
A suspect in the serial killing and shooting of
homeless people in the Big Apple and Washington, DC, was arrested early Tuesday in the capital, police announced.
The gunman – identified by a high-ranking police official as Gerald Brevard III, 30 – was busted when investigators tracked him down at a DC gas station, officials said.
Police believe the same handgun was used in all the shootings, with ballistics linking at least one shooting in each city.
The first linked attack was on March 3 in DC, which was followed by two more shootings there, including the first fatality, who was found dead in a burning tent in the early hours of March 9.
He was initially thought to have suffered fatal burns, but a subsequent autopsy revealed that the man had died of multiple stab and gunshot wounds.
The suspect in the homeless shootings on security footage.@DCPoliceDept/Twitter
By Saturday, Brevard was in the Big Apple, where
a security camera in Soho caught the chilling images of someone shooting a homeless man on King Street around 4:30 a.m., wounding the victim.
The victim screamed and the gunman fled, police said.
An hour later, cameras on Lafayette Street
captured him kicking a homeless man wrapped in a sleeping bag, before drawing his gun and firing — an execution at point-blank range.
“He looked around. He made sure no one was there. And he intentionally took the life of an innocent person,” Adams said.
DC Police Chief Robert Contee III said Monday that “a ton of video and camera footage” had helped point to the same man.
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