Police use DNA to solve decade-old murder case

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D.C. police said they have solved a 10-year-old murder case in which a bank-robbery suspect shot and killed a security guard by using DNA testing not available when the crime was committed.

U.S. Marshals and Metropolitan Police Department officers arrested John Williams, 52, in Beltsville early Tuesday without incident. Williams was charged with felony murder while armed.

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