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Arrest made in Georgia for DC murder

A man wanted for a D.C. murder that occurred in May has been and is awaiting extradition.

D.C. police said officers in Fulton County, Georgia, arrested Byron Brooks, 35, of Southeast, for the second-degree murder of Kareem Elliot Watkins, 43, of Temple Hills, Maryland.

Police made the arrest June 3, but D.C. police did not release information about it until a week later.

Watkins died May 11 at the scene of an early morning stabbing in the 1500 block of Maryland Avenue NE, at a plaza known as Starburst Plaza.

A map of the crime scene is below:

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