
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, August 29, 1993                   TAG: 9308290125
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

POLICE ARREST WOMAN IN SMITHSONIAN SLAYING

A veteran security officer for the Smithsonian Institution has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a cafeteria worker at the National Air and Space Museum that stemmed from a love triangle, authorities said Saturday.

The suspect, identified by police as Arva Faye Harris, 38, of Landover, Md., was charged with second-degree murder while armed. She was arrested late Friday after being interviewed by homicide detectives at D.C. police headquarters. Just before 7 a.m. Friday, Cheryl Marie Hawkins, 30, who worked for a food contractor, was found by a co-worker lying on the floor of the museum's employee cafeteria.

Police sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that the shooting grew out of a love triangle and that Harris became angry when she learned that she was being shunted aside.

- The Washington Post

Keywords:
FATALITY

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