Suspect Arrested For Suffocating Man To Death In Northeast

WASHINGTON, DC — A DC man has been arrested for a murder that left a man dead from asphyxiation in a Northeast home last week.

Samuel Davis, 59, of Northeast was arrested for the Saturday, Oct. 28 murder of Mawuli Kocuvie, 53, of Northeast. Davis is charged with first-degree murder, police said.

Police were called to investigate "trouble" in the 1700 block of Benning Rd. NE at about 10:04 p.m. Oct. 28. Arriving officers entered the home and found Kocuvie unconscious and unresponsive, police said. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

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An autopsy confirmed the man died from asphyxiation, or suffocation, and the death was ruled a homicide.

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