A 28-year-old man has been arrested in the 2011 strangulation and stabbing death of an Eastern Market vendor whose body was found near a creek in a Northeast D.C. park.

Mark Anthony Coates, of Northeast D.C., was arrested Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder in the slaying of 56-year-old Leroy Studevant, according to court papers. The victim reportedly sold bottles of water and newspapers at the popular Eastern Market on Capitol Hill.