D.C. ward a suspect in prof's murder, police say

Montgomery County police said a ward of the District’s juvenile justice agency was a suspect in the murder of an American University professor after searching the teen’s D.C. home.

Deandrew Hamlin was taken into custody late Monday night after crashing accounting professor Sue Ann Marcum’s stolen Jeep Cherokee in D.C., police said. Marcum was found strangled and beaten to death in her Bethesda home Monday morning. Authorities say her house had been broken into and burglarized.