Document: Arrest Made in Homicide

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Metropolitan Police Department detectives have made an arrest in relation to a homicide.

On Aug. 4, at approximately 3:32 p.m., officers responded to 1800 block of Good Hope Road, SE for reports of a shooting inside a conference room of a DC Public Library. Officers located 25-year-old Maurica Manyan and despite all life-saving efforts, she was pronounced dead.

Officers arrested 58-year-old Jesse Porter and charged him with involuntary manslaughter.

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