A Greenville man is in jail in Georgia today after police say he strangled his girlfriend in her Nicholtown Green apartment last weekend.
Nathaniel Bernard Beeks, 47, of 15 Hamilton Ave., is charged with murder in the April 23 death of 51-year-old Marsha Anita Smith, an arrest warrant alleges.
Authorities arrested Beeks in DeKalb County, Ga., on Thursday, and he awaits extradition in the Doraville, Ga., “as soon as possible,” Greenville Police Sgt. Jason Rampey said.
Police had been looking for Beeks since Smith’s body was discovered in her apartment and an autopsy on Monday found she had been strangled, Rampey said.
Family members of Smith’s told police that Beeks had called Smith to her apartment at 10 McCullough Street, Apt. # 1102, so that he could “get his belongings,” the murder warrant alleges.
Shortly after Smith arrived at her apartment, her 23-year-old daughter arrived with another witness and saw Beeks leave the apartment, according to the warrant.
The daughter then saw Beeks drive away in Smith’s Honda Civic, according to the murder warrant and a grand larceny warrant that accuses Beeks of stealing the car.
Smith was found dead moments later with outward signs of trauma to her neck and internal signs of “manual strangulation,” the murder warrant alleges.
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