Northwest DC man arrested in 2018 homicide

A suspect has been arrested in connection with a February 2018 homicide.

D.C. police arrested 23-year-old Avadis Holtzclaw, of Northwest D.C., on Monday and charged him with second-degree murder in the death of Mohammed Kamara, 37.

At approximately 9:15 p.m. on Feb. 27, 2018, police responded to a report of an unconscious person on Forrester Street near Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Southwest D.C. The Alexandria, Virginia, man was taken to a hospital, and he was pronounced dead.

The cause of death was blunt force trauma. Below is a map of the area where Kamara was killed.

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