Maryland murder arrest shocks Columbia neighborhood after woman found strangled

COLUMBIA, MD – A quiet Howard County neighborhood was shaken after police said a 24-year-old man strangled his girlfriend inside a shared home, while a neighbor sat unaware just feet away on the other side of a wall. The victim, identified as 35-year-old Esmeralda Perez-Mendez, was found dead in a bedroom Sunday morning on Watchlight Court, according to the Howard County Police Department.

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