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Nov 4, 2009 8:41 pm US/Mountain

Man Arrested After Fatal Fort Morgan Stabbing

Reporting
Terry Jessup
FORT MORGAN, Colo. (CBS4/AP) ― Fort Morgan police say a man suspected of fatally stabbing a woman outside her apartment has surrendered to authorities.

Police say Ahmed Abdi, 25, 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 Warsan Abdi's apartment in Fort Morgan after residents reported the stabbing. Police say Warsan Abdi is in her early 30s and was one of about 700 African refugees living in the area.

Three or four people witnessed the stabbing. Faiz Omar called 911 from the apartment. He said Warsan Abdi was talking to Ahmed Abdi at the door of the apartment when she was stabbed several times. She then ran inside and collapsed in a pool of blood.

"There were witnesses that heard a discussion leading up to the screaming of the alleged victim," Chief Keith Kuretich with Fort Morgan police said.

Kuretich said the motive is still being investigated.

"We've yet to determine whether they were just acquaintances, or whether there was an intimate relationship, or whether they were relatives," Kuretich said.

Friends of Warsan Abdi said she worked at the Cargill plant and that she and her brother had moved to Fort Morgan together from Somalia six months ago.

Police say their investigation has been complicated by the use of interpreters.

It's the first homicide in the small northeastern Colorado city since Oct. 28, 2006.

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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