Fugitive captured six years after fatal stabbing of D.C. woman

Southeast D.C. woman’s killer arrested after years on the run

Washington, DC – A suspect in a 2019 homicide that left a 40-year-old woman dead in Southeast D.C. has been arrested more than six years after the crime, police announced Tuesday.

On the night of the murder, officers from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Sixth District responded to a check on the welfare call around 8:33 p.m. at a residence in Southeast. Inside the home, officers discovered Natina Kiah suffering from a stab wound. D.C. Fire and EMS determined she had no signs of life. She was later transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Kiah, a Southeast D.C. resident, was pronounced dead at the scene. The case remained unsolved for years as detectives worked to identify and locate a suspect.

On Tuesday