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Roscoe Rosborough, 32, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for a pair of assaults in both Northeast and Northwest DC hours apart earlier this year.
According to court documents, shortly before 5 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, Rosborough walked into a homeless shelter - where he was not a resident - and demanded to use a bathroom.
When rebuffed and refused, he continued his way into the shelter, where he ran into an actual resident walking to the cafeteria for breakfast.
Rosborough then pulled out a tire iron he had concealed and struck the resident repeatedly in the head, splitting it open with a laceration that required nine staples.
He wasn't done yet.
At approximately 3:30 p.m. that same day, prosecutors say that Rosborough was on a Metro train heading toward the Gallery Place-Chinatown station when he got into an altercation with an elderly couple riding with their three grandchildren.
He got into their faces, unprovoked, and began shouting profanities at them, prompting the 78-year-old grandfather to say "back off pal," at which point Rosborough assaulted the man, punching him, pulling him to the floor, and kicking him.
The assault forced the man to have multiple knee-drains and eventually surgery to his knee.
Rosborough pleaded guilty in June to assault with a dangerous weapon and assault with significant bodily injury.
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