Document: Woman Killed in Apparent Stabbing

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a homicide that happened during the early hours of May 10.

At around 2:08 a.m., officers responded to the 2600 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE for the report of an unconscious person, according to a press release.

There, they found 47-year-old Georgette Banks in a residential building suffering from an apparent stab wound. She was pronounced dead on the scene.

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