Federal prosecutors are seeking 39 months in jail for the man who assaulted Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) in her Washington, D.C., apartment building in February.
Kendrid Khalil Hamlin pleaded guilty to one count of assault on a member of Congress and two counts of assault on a law enforcement officer in June for the incident. The recommended sentence from the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia also recommended three years of supervised release after the more than three-year jail sentence.
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“The defendant’s early morning assault of [a] woman in her own apartment building elevator transformed an everyday ritual, going to get a morning cup of coffee, into a traumatic ordeal that has caused lasting emotional damage,” the Friday court filing said.
Prosecutors also said they expect to provide Craig’s “victim impact statement prior to sentencing” but stated that facts by themselves show the “egregious circumstances of this offense.”
“But the facts alone attest to the egregious circumstances of this offense: a woman beaten and assaulted in her own residence; inside an elevator, which is by its nature a small, confined space; punched in the face suffering bruising and a cut; and, restrained from making an escape and forced to fight her way off the elevator,” the filing continued. “Representative Craig suffered bodily injury, which required minor medical treatment, and to this day, experiences the trauma associated with being a victim of a violent crime.”
Immediately after the incident in February, Craig said she was “very, very lucky” that she was not more injured from the encounter.
“My morning coffee really saved the day yesterday, but not exactly how I expected it to,” Craig said in a statement earlier this year. “On a serious note, I will also say that I was very, very lucky that I was not more injured — and I’ll have more to say about that soon.”
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The sentencing hearing for Hamlin is scheduled for Nov. 16 at 11 a.m. in Washington.
Craig is one of two House Democrats to be victims of crime in the nation’s capital this year. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was carjacked at gunpoint in Washington last month. He was able to retrieve all his belongings and was unharmed in the incident.
