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- July 14, 2021
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The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has made an arrest in relation to a May 11 homicide.
At about 3:51 a.m. officers responded to the 1500 block of Maryland Avenue, NE, due to reports of an unconscious person. Police found 43-year-old Kareem Elliot Watkins and pronounced him dead on scene from stab wounds.
On June 3 law enforcement officers in Fulton County, Georgia arrested Byron Brooks due to a DC Superior Court arrest warrant. After going through the extradition process, Brooks, 35, was charged with second-degree murder on July 8.
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