WASHINGTON – The man accused of murdering a visiting artist in a Northeast D.C. row house in March has been indicted by a grand jury.
Prosecutors say El Hadji Toure, 29, formerly of Laurel, Maryland, broke into the house on 14th Street Northeast where Corrina Mehiel, 34, of Burnsville, North Carolina, was staying on March 20. Mehiel was in D.C. to work at George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design.
Once inside, prosecutors claim, Toure sexually assaulted Mehiel, then stabbed her multiple times in the neck and the side.
Toure is also accused of taking Mehiel’s car, credit card, debit card and other belongings before leaving.
The following day, police found Mehiel’s body, bound and stabbed, in the house.
Before his arrest on March 27 police say, Toure used the woman’s debit card to withdraw cash at ATMs in Maryland and Virginia.
Toure faces charges of first-degree murder, sexual abuse, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, theft, credit card fraud and identity theft. He’ll be arraigned on the charges on Dec. 14. He faces a sentence of life in prison if convicted.
