Fourteen years after the murder of Kendra Smith, D.C. police have made an arrest. 

Tony Aiken, 47, of Southeast, D.C., has been charged in the 2004 murder of 23-year-old Kendra Smith, who was shot while sitting in a car outside her home.

Police responded to a call in the 4300 block of D Street on September 6, 2004, and found Smith in distress from a gunshot wound. Her family members, including a young daughter, had been inside the home at the time. Smith was transported to the hospital, where she died the next day.

Courtesy of Fox 5

Smith attended Banneker High School in D.C., as well as Temple University in Philadelphia.

Aiken has been charged with second-degree murder while armed. There is no other information regarding the arrest at this time.

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