More than a year before police accused Gerald Brevard III of carrying out deadly shootings targeting five homeless people in D.C. and New York City, he was facing several felonies for crimes that could have landed him in prison for years.
It was not the first time Brevard was arrested in D.C. He had previously been charged with using a lead pipe to smash a car window, assaulting a police officer and trying to cut a bicyclist with a knife during an altercation. In 2019, he was accused of refusing to leave the lobby of an apartment building and locking himself in the bathroom. Many of the charges were dismissed or consolidated into a felony assault charge in 2019 to which court records show Brevard pleaded guilty.
Nearly three weeks later, Fairfax County police officers were called to the nearby Candlewood Suites in Herndon, according to a police report. A hotel worker told investigators she saw a man in black watching her from a window. He walked away, returned and then began wandering the hotel, so the worker called the police.Officers located the man and took a photo of him before he fled to a nearby apartment building, according to a police report.
Police charged Brevard with abduction with intent to defile in the Homewood Suites attack. They also charged him with multiple Descano’s office opposed bond twice, and Brevard was ordered to remain in jail through the prosecution of his case. Andy Elders, the public defender who represented Brevard in Fairfax County, declined to comment on the case. The attorney representing Brevard in the case involving the killing of the homeless man in D.C. did not respond to a request for comment.Story continues below advertisement
Rick Conway, a former chief deputy Commonwealth’s attorney in Prince William County, said the case had challenges, but he thought Fairfax County prosecutors should have brought Brevard to trial on felony counts given the gravity of the hotel attack and his criminal history.
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