Man arrested after fatal shooting Saturday morning

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A 47-year-old man was arrested in connection to a fatal shooting on Saturday morning.

Kevin Lamont Smith was arrested on Dec. 2 for the alleged murder of Valerie Regina Coleman. He is charged with second-degree murder while armed.

Officers found Coleman, of Southeast, with multiple gunshot wounds in a house on the 1700 Block of 16th Street, SE. She was pronounced dead on the scene and taken to the Chief Medical Examiner.

Smith is due back in court on Dec. 4.