Mother Killed In Md. Home
Three Kids Located, Husband Arrested
By Ann E. Marimow and Ruben Castaneda
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 2, 2007; Page B01
A Burtonsville woman was found slain inside her home early yesterday, and police arrested her estranged husband last night after a frantic search for the man and the couple's three young children that ended in a brief car chase.
Montgomery County police issued an Amber Alert for the children -- ages 4 to 8 -- of Chidiebere Omenihu Ochulo after finding her dead inside her two-story townhouse on a quiet cul-de-sac. Neighbors said the children's father, Kelechi Charles Emeruwa, was estranged from Ochulo. Court filings show he was the subject of several domestic violence allegations.
About 6:15 p.m., police got a tip from someone who saw a blue Honda Civic being driven erratically on Georgia Avenue near Prince Philip Drive, in the Olney area of Montgomery. When officers tried to stop the car, which matched their description of Emeruwa's car, it evaded them and a pursuit began. Police said the car rammed several police cruisers and came to rest after hitting one on a nearby dead-end street. Police arrested Emeruwa, 41, and said last night that they will charge him with first-degree murder.
"It was not that long. It may just have been a couple of minutes, but it seemed like an eternity," Lt. Eric Burnett, a Montgomery police spokesman, said of the chase.
The children were inside the car and sustained no physical injury, Burnett said. He said the children would be evaluated by counselors.
"Social Services will speak to them," he said. "We don't know what they've seen."
Ochulo, a 36-year-old nurse, was stabbed in her townhouse in the 4200 block of Dunwood Terrace, said an official familiar with the investigation.
From 2003 to 2005, Ochulo filed at least three domestic violence claims against Emeruwa in Prince George's County District Court, according to summaries of the filings. Summaries of court records also show that Emeruwa was charged twice in drunken driving incidents in Montgomery County in November.
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