Woman accused of fatally stabbing Washington Post employee over $10 arrested
A woman accused of fatally stabbing a Washington Post employee with a bread knife inside a Maryland restaurant — over a tantrum about $10 — was arrested Monday after spending several weeks at large.
Maryland police arrested Raykia Poston, 21, and charged her with first-degree murder in the brutal July 8 killing of longtime Washington Post mailroom assistant Mervyn Daniel, the newspaper reported.
Daniel and Poston were both dining in Keith & Sons Soul Food Cafe in Seat Pleasant when the woman allegedly flew into a rage, claiming she had lost $10 inside the eatery.
“I will kill everybody in this store,” Poston yelled, according to onlookers.
She then stabbed Daniel, 62, with a bread knife, before fleeing the restaurant, charging documents allege.
It wasn’t immediately clear how Daniel knew Poston, or why he was targeted, however, witnesses told police that the pair had gotten into “a verbal altercation” before the stabbing, according to the documents.
Police found Daniel unresponsive inside the restaurant.
He later died at an area hospital.
Poston’s boyfriend, Jesse Culley, 37, helped her flee the scene of the stabbing.
Culley was arrested and charged as an accessory to the murder.
He was ordered held without bond, according to court records.
Culley, Poston and Daniel all lived in the same home in Capitol Heights, a town on the border of Washington DC, police said.
Daniel began working as a mailroom helper at a printing facility for the Washington Post when he was 19 years old — and still held the job up until he died, according to his obituary.
Poston is being held at the Prince George’s County jail, police said.
It was not immediately clear if Poston has an attorney.
Keith Lee Hiller, Culley’s attorney, declined to comment to WaPo.
