A woman accused of fatally stabbing a Washington Post employee with a bread knife inside a Maryland restaurant — over a tantrum about $10 — was arrested Monday after spending several weeks at large. Maryland police arrested Raykia Poston, 21, and charged her with first-degree murder in the brutal July 8 killing of longtime Washington Post mailroom assistant Mervyn Daniel, the newspaper reported. She then stabbed Daniel, 62, with a bread knife, before fleeing the restaurant, charging documents allege. It wasn’t immediately clear how Daniel knew Poston, or why he was targeted, however, witnesses told police that the pair had gotten into “a verbal altercation” before the stabbing, according to the documents. Daniel had worked for the Washington Post as a mailroom assistant since he was 19, according to his obituary.

Source: Washington Post August 10, 2023 01:43 UTC