WASHINGTON – Jasper Spires, 21, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for the July 4, 2015 slaying of Kevin Sutherland on a Metrorail train, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), and Ron Pavlik, Chief of the Metro Transit Police.
Spires pled guilty on Oct. 19, 2017, to first-degree murder while armed (premeditated). The plea, which was contingent upon the Court’s approval, called for an agreed-upon sentence in the range of 30 to 35 years. The Honorable Judith Bartnoff accepted the plea and sentenced the defendant accordingly at a hearing today in in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Following his prison term, Spires will be placed on five years of supervised release.
“Kevin Sutherland was on his way to a Fourth of July celebration when he was robbed and murdered in the middle of the day in the first killing ever to take place on a Metro train,” said U.S. Attorney Liu. “Other passengers were terrorized and remain traumatized to this day. Thanks to the excellent work of our law enforcement partners, Jasper Spires was arrested for this senseless crime. Today’s sentence will keep this predator off our streets for decades to come.”
“This heinous crime shocked our entire community and deeply affected all of us at Metro,” said Metro Transit Police Chief Pavlik. “We continue to extend our heartfelt sympathy and condolences to the family and friends of Kevin Sutherland, and hope that today’s sentencing may give them some comfort. I want to extend our gratitude to the Metropolitan Police Department for their work in quickly bringing this case to closure, as well as the prosecutors who ensured that justice is served.”
According to a proffer of facts submitted at the plea hearing, on July 4, 2015, at approximately 12:43 p.m., Spires was standing near the fare machines at the entrance to the Rhode Island Avenue – Brentwood Metro Station, in the 900 block of Rhode Island Avenue NE, when 24-year-old Kevin Sutherland entered the station. Mr. Sutherland proceeded through the turnstiles and up the escalator to the platform, where he walked toward the front end of the platform to wait for a downtown-bound Red Line train.
A short while later, Spires followed through the entrance and up the escalator. As he stepped off the escalator and onto the platform, Metro digital surveillance cameras captured Spires putting gloves on his hands. Spires also walked towards the front end of the platform.
When a downtown-bound Red Line train arrived, both Spires and Mr. Sutherland boarded the second car of the train. Mr. Sutherland sat down near the middle of the car, in a seat facing inward, towards the center of the car. As the train traveled between the Rhode Island Avenue and NOMA-Gallaudet University Metro stations, Spires approached Mr. Sutherland and snatched Mr. Sutherland’s cellphone from his hand. Spires then began to attack Mr. Sutherland with a knife. He stabbed Mr. Sutherland repeatedly in the abdomen, upper right back, left side, right side, left arm, and right arm. As Spires stabbed him, Mr. Sutherland fell to the floor of the train. Spires continued to stab Mr. Sutherland as he lay on the floor. He also kicked Mr. Sutherland in the body and head. At the end of the attack, Spires threw Mr. Sutherland’s cellphone at him, striking him in the head.
Nine other passengers were on the train car at the time of the attack. As it unfolded, witnesses aboard the train attempted to notify the train’s operator. Spires menaced one of these witnesses with his knife and told the witness to “Shut up.” He also menaced two other witnesses on the train with a knife, one of whom was 76 years old, taking their property.
When the train pulled into the NOMA-Gallaudet station, Spires walked off the train and ran down the stairs leaving the platform. He discarded the knife in a trashcan before continuing his flight. As he hopped the exit turnstiles of the station, Spires dropped a backpack. He hesitated for a moment, as though he would stop to pick up the backpack, but then continued his flight without retrieving the backpack. Metro employees and some civilians who had been on the train with Mr. Sutherland called 911, and some witnesses sat with Mr. Sutherland as they waited for emergency personnel to arrive. By the time first responders got to the scene, Mr. Sutherland was unresponsive and emergency personnel pronounced Mr. Sutherland to be deceased.
Spires was arrested on July 6, 2015, and has been in custody ever since.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia conducted an autopsy on Mr. Sutherland. During the autopsy, the deputy medical examiner observed 19 stab wounds and 16 cutting wounds on Mr. Sutherland’s body. Several of the stab wounds were very deep and caused damage to Mr. Sutherland’s internal organs.
In announcing the sentence, U.S. Attorney Liu, Chief Newsham, and Chief Pavlik commended the work of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and the Metro Transit Police. They also expressed appreciation for the assistance provided by the District of Columbia Department of Forensic Sciences and Bode Cellmark Forensics.
They acknowledged the efforts of those who worked on the case from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, including Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sharon Donovan, David Gorman, Michelle D. Jackson, Colleen M. Kennedy, Silvia Gonzalez-Roman, Mark Aziz, Kara Traster, and Anwar Graves; Michael Ambrosino, Special Counsel for DNA and Forensic Evidence Litigation; Forensic Operation Program Specialist Benjamin Kagan-Guthrie; Criminal Investigators Durand Odom and Mark Crawford; Investigative Analyst Zachary McMenamin; Litigation Technology Specialist Leif Hickling; Paralegal Specialists Kelly Blakeney, Sandra Lane, Lashone Samuels, and Michelle Chambers; former Paralegal Specialists Karen Hansen and Vanessa Trent- Valentine; the Victim/Witness Assistance Unit, including Victim/Witness Advocates Jennifer Clark and Marcia Rinker and Victim/Witness Services Coordinator Katina Adams-Washington, and Administrative Services Specialist Sallie Rynas.
Finally, they commended the work of Assistant U.S. Attorneys Christine Macey and Kathryn Rakoczy, who investigated and prosecuted the case.
5 comments:
It pretty much takes this kind of horrific crime to get a black sentenced to some REAL prison time.If Sutherland had lived--in spite of the vicious attempt at murder--Spires would be out in 5 years.The INTENT of the black/Mex thug doesn't matter to juries and judges,only the result.
I think it SHOULD matter in order to keep the scum off the streets.
Whether the minority is successful in committing murder shouldn't matter in my humble opinion,when it comes to punishment and sentencing.
It's only pure luck that allows some folks to survive an attack,but the criminal negro/Mex should not get a break because of it with a lesser sentence.
--GRA
jerry pdx
Listen as Sam Seder with his "Majority" Report cohorts downplay Jordan Neely's threats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSD9zSqwaQw
Now Seder hedges a little by saying based on initial reports and "it's not clear" that Neely was being violent and threatening but then spends the rest of the episode trying make Neely sound harmless and Penny sound evil. If you've never listened to Sam Seder and MR, then this gives you a pretty good snapshot, they are as Woke as they come and Whites are always in the wrong and blacks always in the right. I've also been listening to OPB, Democracy Now and various other far left broadcasters and they are all following the same script: Neely was yelling harmless words and was a good boy who just had some mental issues (with a suggestion racism made him that way), and the White man violently overreacted (possibly because he's a racist). The ones that acknowledge he may have yelled some threats still downplay them because he didn't actually hit anyone or brandish a weapon so Penny still overreacted using a lethal submission hold on him.
He definitely did make violent threats though:
https://thepostmillennial.com/witness-says-jordan-neely-started-making-death-threats-against-passengers-before-daniel-penny-engaged-him
At what point do verbal threats cross a certain line anyways? Here is some legal reasoning:
https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/verbal-threats-as-assault.html
But what's really bugging me is this...Aren't we being subjected to a barrage of complaints from blacks, sex psychos of all kinds or alien invaders how any kind of words they deem offensive are considered threatening? They've even created definitions like "micro aggressions" that make just about anything a White says sound threatening. Isn't that why they have "safe spaces", so they can escape from those evil threatening Whites?
This is what we've come to, as a White, in today's bizarro world of racial politics even innocuous things you say can subjectively be defined as threatening but an aggressive negro yelling death threats is considered "harmless".
"Listen as Sam Seder with his "Majority" Report cohorts downplay Jordan Neely's threats:"
Uhh, OK. (((Sam Seder))).
"He definitely did make violent threats though:"
TPM quotes a female witness speaking *anonymously* to the NYPost. Will people like her be willing to appear in court and testify? You cannot do that anonymously.
From TPM:
"Penny was subsequently charged with second-degree manslaughter and could face up to fifteen years in prison if convicted."
https://newyork.public.law/laws/n.y._penal_law_section_125.15
"New York Penal Law
Sec. 125.15
Manslaughter in the Second Degree
§ 125.15 Manslaughter in the second degree. A person is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree when:
1.He recklessly causes the death of another person; or ...
Manslaughter in the second degree is a class C felony."
Max penalty for a class C felony is 15 years:
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/70.00
What *exactly* does "recklessly causes the death of another person" mean? There is probably precedent (examples) in NY state about that. Per precedent, was Penny being "reckless"? No reasonable person would conclude that.
It's clearly a disgusting malicious prosecution. But the key questions are how the prosecution will frame it in the context of NY law and precedent, how a judge will instruct the jury, i.e. what alternatives he will give them, and how a jury will react.
One thing for sure: Hochul will not be offering to pardon Daniel Penny the way Abbott offered to pardon Daniel Perry (interesting similarity of names).
https://www.revolver.news/2023/05/black-activist-judge-throws-the-book-at-texas-uber-driver-who-shot-and-killed-armed-and-dangerous-blm-instigator/
https://www.courant.com/2015/07/13/mourners-remember-kevin-sutherland-killed-on-dc-subway-as-caring-sensitive/
Sounds like the victim was a committed liberal, someone who may have worked diligently to ignore and excuse things like black crime, and make sure destructive policies, especially those of Democrats, continued (albeit crime is largely a demographic problem).
"Sutherland was a sensitive young man who loved politics and was committed to the principles of equality and fairness, said his father, Douglas Sutherland. A fan of Pope Francis and a supporter of liberal causes, Sutherland at the time of his death was working for a digital strategy firm that helps Democratic candidates."
But he was young and perhaps his views would have changed.
Still a savage crime.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-to-be-sentenced-for-killing-american-university-graduate-on-metro-train-in-2015/165856/
I know a knife is a weapon. But it's not a gun. Why wasn't he able to defend himself better against someone with a knife? Did anyone try to help him?
A reduced sentence can also be the key part of a plea deal.
"Jasper Spires received the sentence of prison time plus five years of probation on Friday afternoon for the murder that stunned the city. A plea deal allowed him to avoid a life sentence."
In this case, maybe prosecutors were also anxious to get a deal because the accused showed signs of mental illness. Given that, the outcome of a trial is uncertain.
He will very likely be released some day.
The comments of the parents were as expected.
Because Whites--apparently--have no rights and don't matter.White WOKES matter--but not White
Patriots.White wokes are needed to push the final phases of complete anarchy onto this country.White Patriots are in the way.
To hear a White defend a criminal black is beyond my comprehension and paygrade.Apparently,mass delusion about trannyism being "normal"--and the spread of mass murder as a solution to one's problems--are not the only areas where the commies have been successful in
changing the minds of segments of our citizenry.
Media has been used to do this.They're still working on the "Whites must be genocided(faster)" theme,by labeling all of us as "White supremacists"--with the biggest threat in the country being "White,domestic terrorism"--which all these nig*er thugs apparently are part of,lol.
--GRA
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