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Police arrested a suspect on Monday in the murder of an artist who was found tied up and fatally stabbed in a Capitol Hill apartment last week.

El Hadji Alpha Madiou Toure, 28, is being charged with first degree murder while armed and theft in the death of 34-year-old Corrina Mehiel, according to a release from the Metropolitan Police Department. Acting Police Chief Peter Newsham said at a press conference today that officers received “numerous tips” but one was “instrumental” in Toure’s arrest.

Mehiel, an artist and teacher from North Carolina, was living in D.C. temporarily while working on an exhibit at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design.

Police said she was last seen on March 19 at the college, though artist Mel Chin told The Washington Post that he saw her that evening at a dinner in his Foggy Bottom home.

Around 4:19 p.m. on March 21, police found Mehiel “unresponsive and bound by various pieces of clothing and bedding” in the back bedroom of the basement apartment, according to a police report.

The home is located in the 600 block of 14th Street NE. Newsham told reporters last week that there were no signs of forced entry.

Mehiel’s Toyota Prius was also reported missing at the time, but police recovered it over the weekend.

Newsham said today that there’s no information to suggest that Mehiel and Toure knew each other and there is no evidence that Mehiel was sexually assaulted. He didn’t specify a motive for the crime.

This post has been updated.