A homicide suspect is dead after a shootout with D.C. police Thursday morning in Columbia Heights, according to the police department’s chief.

He was being sought for first-degree murder in the death of 33-year-old Maurisha Singletary of Northeast , who was found dead Sunday night inside a home on the 4000 block of Minnesota Avenue NE, near Benning Road.

D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith said a joint task force involving D.C. police, U.S. Marshals and others had an arrest warrant for the suspect, who has not been publicly identified.

Member of the task force went to the suspect’s apartment in 1400 block of Girard Street Thursday morning.

“This morning, an exchange of gunfire occurred between the suspect and the members of the task force,” Smith said at a news conference. “The suspect wa

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