Police investigating Glover Park homicide as a domestic incident

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Police have charged a man with murder after a woman’s body was found in her Glover Park apartment following a bomb threat in the building.

According to police, they received a call for a suspicious package in the apartment building in the 4000 block of Tunlaw Road, NW at around 6:10 a.m. Police later tweeted that the homicide was a domestic incident, and a person of interest had been detained.

When responding to the building, police found a female with stab wounds, who was pronounced dead at the hospital. Charles Elvis Sykes was arrested for her alleged murder, and charged with second-degree murder while armed. Police have not yet identified the deceased female, nor disclosed how the victim and suspect knew each other.