Police arrest suspect in fatal shooting in Anacostia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-arrest-suspect-in-fatal-shooting-in-anacostia/2016/03/24/d0ec5d02-f1eb-11e5-89c3-a647fcce95e0_story.html

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D.C. police on Thursday arrested a suspect in a fatal shooting that occurred on a February afternoon near a public library in Southeast Washington’s Anacostia neighborhood.

Alphonso Roberts, 32, of Southeast, was charged with second-degree murder. He could make an initial appearance in D.C. Superior Court on Thursday or Friday.

[Man shot, killed near library in Anacostia]

He is charged with killing Maurico Walker, 23, of Northeast, who died at a hospital several hours after he was shot about 4 p.m. on Feb. 10 in the 1900 block of 18th Street SE. It is near the Anacostia Neighborhood Library.

Police did not release information about a possible motive.