Source: Office of United States Attorneys
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced that BRUCE MORRIS, a/k/a “G,” was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman to 27 years in prison in connection with the August 2016 murder of Jerome Jemison in the Bronx, New York, as well as related narcotics and firearm offenses. MORRIS was convicted following a jury trial in January 2025 of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and heroin and of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm in connection with that conspiracy. Following an evidentiary hearing, Judge Furman also found that MORRIS was responsible for the murder of Jemison.
“In 2016, Bruce Morris murdered Jerome Jemison in the middle of the day on the landing of a public stairwell of an apartment building in the Bronx, a building that he terrorized for over a decade,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton. “Morris has now been held accountable for his heinous crimes.”
As detailed in public filings and public court proceedings:
From at least 2012 through in or about June 2023, MORRIS led a narcotics conspiracy that sold crack cocaine and heroin in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx. The base of MORRIS’s operation was an apartment in the building where his family lived at 868 Faile Street and the surrounding area, as well as, for a time, a vacant apartment in that same building. MORRIS used guns, threats of violence, and acts of violence to maintain control of his drug trafficking business and the building. On one occasion, when the superintendent of the building confronted the conspirators about their use of the vacant apartment, MORRIS threatened the superintendent with a firearm.
On August 11, 2016, during the middle of a summer day, on the third floor of 868 Faile Street, MORRIS shot Sal in the back of his head over a drug debt. Sal was 46 years old.
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In addition to his prison term, MORRIS, 43, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced to five years of supervised release.
Mr. Clayton praised the outstanding investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York City Police Department.
This case is being handled by the Office’s Narcotics Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew Weinberg, Camille L. Fletcher, Jeffrey W. Coyle, Jackie Delligatti, and Marguerite B. Colson are in charge of the prosecution, with the assistance of Paralegal Specialist Jackie Fleury.