Kalil Ameer Xavier Pitts Charged with Attempted Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Washington DC, 2022

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Defendant Threatened Victim with a Gun at a Metro Station

A Washington, D.C. man has pleaded guilty to attempting to assault another individual with a dangerous weapon, following a confrontation at a Metro station in June 2022.

Kalil Ameer Xavier Pitts, 31, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to one count of attempted assault with a dangerous weapon, two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm, one count of simple assault, and one count of criminally negligent storage of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Chief Michael Anzallo, of the Metro Transit Police Department.

The incident occurred on June 9, 2022, at the Brookland-CUA Metro Station in Washington, D.C., when Pitts followed a former friend to the train platform and threatened him with a handgun. The victim fled, but Pitts chased him through the station, starting a physical altercation. The assaults were recorded by WMATA’s surveillance system.

A week later, members of the Metro Transit Police Department executed a search warrant at Pitts’ D.C. apartment, where they found a loaded handgun and a ‘ghost’ rifle, both accessible to two young children under the age of 10 years. Pitts was not permitted to possess the firearms due to a prior conviction and did not store them securely.

Pitts faces up to five years’ imprisonment for attempted assault with a dangerous weapon, up to 10 years’ imprisonment for unlawful possession of firearms, up to 180 days’ imprisonment for simple assault, and up to 180 days’ imprisonment for criminally negligent storage of a firearm. He will be sentenced on July 28, 2023.

Graves and Anzallo commended the work of those who investigated the case, including Assistant U.S. Attorneys Carlos A. Valdivia and Omeed Assefi, who investigated and prosecuted the matter. The plea was announced as part of an ongoing effort to combat violent crime in the nation’s capital.