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WASHINGTON – Police arrested a suspect in the case of a South Florida woman who was stabbed to death while she was running in the nation's capital.
"There is a hole in our hearts that will never be replaced," said Wendy Martinez's friend, Kristina Moore.
Martinez's friends spoke Thursday for the 35-year-old family, just two days after Martinez was stabbed in Washington.
"I was texting her two hours before her murder – I mean, it was only a shock, hard to believe," Moore said.
Martinez grew up in South Florida. She graduated from Lake Worth High School, then studied at the University of Florida and Florida Atlantic University before graduating from Georgetown University.
Police said she was jogging in the Logan Circle neighborhood Tuesday night while she had been stabbed by a man without provocation.
She fell in a Chinese restaurant, desperate to ask for help.
"While people acted quickly, including our emergency responders, in an attempt to help Wendy, she succumbed to her injuries," said Mayor Muriel Bowser.
About a day and a half after his death, police announced that they had arrested a suspect, Anthony Crawford, 23, charged with first degree murder.
The arrest brings some relief to Martinez's family and friends, but they now have to plan her funeral a few days after she and her fiancé get engaged.
"She was just engaged last week," said Moore. "Wendy should have bought her wedding dress on Friday."
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