A former standout high-school soccer player from Federal Way has been charged with murder in the death of a co-worker in an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C.
Police in Bethesda, Md., said Brittany Norwood, 28, a 2000 graduate of Decatur High School in Federal Way, made up a story about being attacked inside a yoga-clothing store where she worked to cover up the bludgeoning and stabbing death of co-worker Jayna Murray, 30, of Arlington, Va.
Norwood, who went on to play soccer at Stony Brook University in New York, told police on March 12 that two masked men had entered the Lululemon Athletica store in Bethesda the night before and attacked and sexually assaulted her and Murray. The next morning, another store employee found Murray dead in the shop and Norwood injured and bound.
But after six days of investigation, police now believe that neither woman was sexually assaulted and that Norwood killed Murray after a dispute, according to Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger.
