Authorities say they have the man responsible for shooting homeless men in New York City and Washington D.C., killing two of them.
Thanks to numerous tips, Gerald Brevard was picked up by authorities on the streets of Washington D.C. Tuesday morning. NYPD Chief James Essig says ballistics evidence ties him to the targeted shootings of five homeless men on the streets of New York City and DC earlier this month.
“Just going up and discriminately shooting somebody sleeping defenselessly on a sidewalk bothering nobody, they got some serious issues.”
He says Brevard has no known ties to New York. Brevard' s father tells the New York Times that his son has a mental illness that has gone unaddressed.