D.C. police announced on Sept. 18 that their search for 39-year-old Solaman Richardson as a suspect in the July 18 shooting death of his male roommate that police listed as “domestic in nature” ended in Richardson’s arrest in Baltimore.

A D.C. Superior Court judge on July 18 found probable cause that Richardson committed Second-Degree Murder While Armed in the death of his roommate Allen Shropshire, 41, inside the Northeast D.C. apartment that the two men shared.

A 16-page affidavit in support of the arrest filed in court on Sept. 18 disclosed for the first time that the two men were half-brothers, having the same mother and different fathers.

Previous statements released by D.C. police that the murder was “domestic in nature,” suggested it could have been an incident of domestic violen

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