Two men have been arrested in the death of a man who died after a fight in Lanham last month, according to Prince George’s County Police.
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Teddy Kaikai Marchant, 26, and Alhaji Abu Bakarr, 36, have been charged in connection with the death of Aiah Nyanga Tongu of Greenbelt.
Cpl. Clinton Copeland said Tongu, 34, had been involved in an early morning fight in the 9700 block of Martin Luther King Jr. in Lanham, on March 18, and went to a hospital with difficulty breathing. He was pronounced death later that day.
The medical examiner ruled Tongu’s death a homicide on Wednesday, but Copeland did not know the cause.
Marchant, of Bladensburg, and Bakarr, of Bowie, have been charged with first-degree assault and are being held without bond. With the medical examiner’s ruling, detectives are working with prosecutors to amend the charges to murder, police said.
