A Boston man has been charged with fatally beating a 21-year-old woman whose body was found in the city’s Mission Hill area earlier this month, officials said.

Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden approved an arrest warrant for Kevin Boyette, 36, in the death of Tatyiana Flood, his office said Thursday.

Boyette was already in custody on assault charges relating to Flood’s death, Hayden’s office said. He is expected to be arraigned on a murder charge Friday in the Roxbury division of Boston Municipal Court.

Police found Flood’s body in front of an apartment complex near 20 Annunciation Road shortly after 6 a.m. on May 20, officials said.

An attorney representing Boyette could not immediately be reached for comment.

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