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:
