It was a heated day in court as two D.C. police officers faced a judge. A sentencing hearing continued after the officers were convicted in the death of a man who crashed his scooter while being chased by police.
There were character witnesses for the defendants and victim impact statements in court Wednesday.
This all began in October 2020, when Officer Terence Sutton started pursuing 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown.
Hylton-Brown was on a moped, crashed into a vehicle and died.
Sutton was convicted of second-degree murder in 2022. Sutton and his supervising officer, Lt. Andrew Zabavsky, were both convicted of obstruction of justice.
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They are set to be sentenced Thursday. The judge said will not hand down the lengthy prison sentences prosecutors are pushing for.
Surveillance video and police body camera video on Oct. 23, 2020, showed the 3-1/2-minute chase up and down a neighborhood street. The chase ended when Hylton-Brown ran into an oncoming vehicle and was killed. His death sparked a protest that turned violent outside the Fourth District police station.
Sutton is the first D.C. officer convicted of murder in the line of duty.
