Fort Morgan Police have arrested a suspected man in connection to death of a woman. Reports indicated that he woman died of an attack from stabbing. Such crime is not frequent in Fort Morgan, Colorado. This incidence has been marked as the city's first homicide in three years.
Fort Morgan Police Chief Keith Kuretich says 25-year-old Ahmed Abdi was taken into custody in Greeley where he lives, by officers on Wednesday morning. Abdi, who has Somali root, is charged with Murder in the Second Degree and First and Second Degree Assault. He is being held at the Morgan County Detention Center.
Fort Morgan Police originally received a 911 call about a disturbance in the 400 W. block of Kiowa Avenue at 11:36 p.m. Tuesday. When officers arrived they found the body of a woman outside of the house. Kuretich says it appears she was stabbed to death.
Wednesday morning police executed a search warrant to gather additional evidence. Kuretich says the last homicide in Fort Morgan was on October 28, 2006.
