WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

WASHINGTON - Gerald Brevard, III, 35, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty today of bias-related hate crimes in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, on charges stemming from the murder of 54-year-old Morgan Holmes, a homeless man and attacks on two other homeless men, in March 2022, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.

"This defendant's deliberate and violent attacks on vulnerable members of our community represent a grave breach of public safety and basic human dignity," said U.S. Attorney Pirro. "Today's convictions affirms that such brutality will be met with a firm and de...