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.
