Document: Woman Killed in Southeast, DC

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers are investigating a homicide that happened during the early hours of Jan. 31.

At around 12:21 a.m., officers responded to the 1100 block of Bellevue Street, SE for the report of a woman down on a sidewalk.

There, they found 30 year-old Brenea Audrice Franklin suffering from a severe laceration. She was pronounced dead on the scene.