New Haven police have charged a 35-year-old city man with murder after finding a woman's body in a burning apartment yesterday.
At 1:51 a.m. on Monday, New Haven police responded to a report of a domestic incident at 161 Whalley Avenue and found flames and smoke pouring from building, so they called in the fire department.
Firefighters traced the smoke to a fire burning in the third-floor apartment, knocked down the apartment door, extinguished the fire and found the body of Georgette Alston, 31.
Police said Frank Moore, 35, who lived at 161 Whalley Avenue with Alston, approached police and was arrested and charged with first degree assault.
On Tuesday, he was charged with murder.
Moore has an extensive criminal background, police said.
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