PITTSBURGH, PA – A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to a total of  10 years of imprisonment on his revocation of federal supervised release in connection with his  violent conduct occurring in July of 2022, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. 

United States District Judge W. Scott Hardy imposed the sentence on Damien Bradford, age  42. 

According to information presented to the court, Bradford was previously convicted in the  Northern District of Ohio of Interstate Stalking and Use and Carry of a Firearm during the  Commission of a Felony. Those convictions related to Bradford’s killing of Dr. Gulam Moonda in  May 2005. Bradford was initially sentenced to a 210-month term of imprisonment, followed by 5 years of federal supervised release. Upon his release from imprisonment, Bradford’s supervision  was transferred from the Northern District of Ohio to the Western District of Pennsylvania. On July  29, 2022, the Pennsylvania State Police charged Bradford with numerous offenses, to include  Attempted Homicide, Aggravated Assault – Fear of Imminent Serious Bodily Injury Designated  Individual, Assault of Law Enforcement Officer, Disarming Law Enforcement Officer, and  Possession of Firearms Prohibited. In November 2023, Bradford was convicted in the Beaver County  Court of Common Pleas and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 36 1/2 to 73 years. 

Following that sentencing proceeding, a federal supervised release violation hearing was  held. At the proceeding, the government introduced videos of Bradford’s conduct in July 2022. The  videos depicted Bradford pointing a firearm at an individual, a bystander applying a torniquet to a  Pennsylvania State Police Trooper who Bradford shot in the leg, and a bystander assisting another  Pennsylvania State Police Trooper restrain Bradford as he grabbed the Trooper’s firearm and taser.  

Bradford admitted to violating some conditions of his federal supervised release and  requested that the Court impose a sentence to be served concurrently to his sentence in Beaver  County. The government requested that the Court revoke Bradford’s supervised release, sentence  him to the maximum term of imprisonment of 10-years, and to impose that sentence consecutively  to the Beaver County sentence. 

Judge Hardy imposed a total 10-year sentence, to be served consecutively to the Beaver  County sentence. Prior to imposing sentence, Judge Hardy emphasized the seriousness of Bradford’s  conduct, Bradford’s propensity for enduring violence, and the need to impose the maximum sentence  authorized by law to protect the public from Bradford. Finally, Judge Hardy commended the bystanders who assisted the Pennsylvania State Police, as depicted in the videos introduced at the  hearing. 

Assistant United States Attorney Brendan J. McKenna prosecuted this case on behalf of the  government. 

United States Attorney Olshan commended the Pennsylvania State Police for the  investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Bradford.