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Arrests in Slain Principal's Homicide

MURDER CASE

Police say suspects met D.C. educator on sex chat line.

Just over two weeks after Washington, D.C. principal Brian Betts, 42, was shot to death in his home, two 18-year-old suspects, Sharif Tau Lancaster and Alante Saunders, have been arrested and charged with murder. A third man is also in custody, though not yet charged with a crime, and Lancaster's mother, Artura Otey Williams, has been charged with using Betts' stolen credit card. Police say that Betts met at least one of the suspects through a "sex chat line" or "social networking chat line." Betts, principal of Shaw Middle School, was considered one of the top educators in the city at the time of his death.

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