Document: Homicide in Northeast, DC

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a homicide that happened during the early hours of May 11.

At around 3:51 a.m., officers responded to the 1500 block of Maryland Avenue, NE, for the report of an unconscious person, according to a press release.

There, they found 43-year-old Kareem Elliot Watkins with an apparent stab wound. He was pronounced dead on scene.

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