Two Women Charged with Murder and Dismemberment in Washington, D.C.

 Two women have been charged with the murder and dismemberment of a man in Washington, D.C., with one allegedly using his severed thumb to access his bank account for personal expenditures on Uber rides, marijuana, and alcohol, according to court documents and police reports.

Tiffany Taylor Gray, 22, was arrested in Maryland earlier this month (July 2024) on a warrant for first-degree murder while armed in connection with the death of 53-year-old Fasil Teklemariam. Teklemariam was found dead in his Washington, D.C., apartment on April 5, 2024, according to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

A witness claimed that Gray worked as a sex worker and referred to Teklemariam as her "sugar daddy," although these claims have not been verified by police, an MPD spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

Teklemariam, a married father of two as noted on a GoFundMe page, was discovered in his Peabody Street home with stab wounds, multiple blunt-force fractures to his head, and his right thumb missing.

Forensic detectives found broken glass around his body and on his bed, and determined that cleaning agents had been used to obscure evidence at the scene, according to an arrest affidavit.

The specific details surrounding his death have not been fully disclosed.