A 43-year-old Bronx man, Bruce Morris, a/k/a “G,” was sentenced Monday, Aug. 4, to 27 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman in connection with the August 2016 murder of Jerome Jemison, 46, in The Bronx, as well as related narcotics and firearm offenses, federal prosecutors said.
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton said 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. He said following an evidentiary hearing, 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 Clayton. “Morris has now been held accountable for his heinous crimes.”…