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Police identify victim of murder suicide

A woman stabbed to death by her boyfriend last week in a murder-suicide was identified as Fethawit K. Okbai.

The 19-year-old was killed Nov. 23 in an apartment at 5711 W. Tropicana Ave., near Jones Boulevard, police said.

About an hour after her body was found, boyfriend Michael Gebreneguse, 31, jumped in front of a tractor-trailer in Henderson. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.

Police said the couple had been dating about 18 months.

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