The body of a young pregnant woman was found in an alley in Southeast D.C. Monday morning, and her boyfriend is in police custody.
Officers were called to the 400 block of Chesapeake Street SE just before 10:30 a.m., where they found the victim with a knife wound in her neck.
Her family identified her as 22-year-old Julissa Washington, reported News4's Pat Collins.
She was about three months pregnant, her brother said, and news of the baby had made a big difference in her life.
"When she found out she was pregnant, it was like a whole life change," he said. "It was like something kicked in and she started getting her life in order, everything... the way it should be."
Witnesses said they saw Washington and her boyfriend walking up 4th Street, coming from her mother's home nearby, just minutes before her body was found.
"This is the kind of thing that happens all the time, but you don't expect it to happen to your own family," her brother said. "The world is crazy."
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