DC officers sentenced in man's scooter crash death

Two D.C. police officers were sentenced for causing the death of a man on a moped nearly four years ago. The judge sentenced Officer Terrence Sutton to five and a half years in prison, and Lieutenant Andrew Zabasky will serve four years.

The officers plan to appeal their conviction and sentencing.

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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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.

Two D.C. Police officers were convicted in the death of a man who crashed his scooter after police chased him. News4’s Mark Segraves reports. 

Sutton is the first D.C. officer convicted of murder in the line of duty.