D.C. police announced on Sept. 17 the arrest of a District man who was apprehended in North Carolina for the July 5 shooting death of D.C. transgender woman Daquane “Dream” Johnson, 28, as she walked along the 2000 block of Benning Road, N.E.

In a statement announcing the arrest, D.C. police said Edgar Arrington, 38, was charged with First Degree Murder While Armed, which it listed as premeditated under aggravating circumstances.

Although D.C. police did not initially list the murder as a hate crime, prosecutors with the Office of the United States Attorney for D.C. filed a hate crime designation to the charge based on Johnson’s gender identity in charging documents filed in D.C. Superior Court.

During his initial appearance in court for an arraignment on Sept. 18, D.C. Superior Court M

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