FORT MORGAN, Colo.—Fort Morgan police say a man suspected of fatally stabbing a woman outside her apartment has surrendered to authorities.
Police say 25-year-old Ahmed Abdi learned from the victim’s relatives that authorities were looking for him and so he called police from a 7-Eleven pay phone. Greeley police arrested him early Wednesday and transferred him to Fort Morgan.
Abdi is being held on investigation of second-degree murder and assault charges.
Police responded to the victim’s apartment in Fort Morgan after residents reported the stabbing. The victim’s name has not been released but police say she is in her early 20s and was one of about 600 African refugees living in the area.
It’s the first homicide in the small northeastern Colorado city since Oct. 28, 2006.
