D.C. woman found dead after making multiple 911 calls about stalker

Specialists say Sylvia Matthews called police regarding her denounced stalker Michael Garrett to some extent twice on Dec. 3 preceding he purportedly killed her in her own home
An old Washington, D.C. lady, who specialists say had been followed for a really long time by a previous prisoner she recently met while
Working at a neighborhood prison, was supposedly killed by similar man in her own home eight days prior regardless of calling police on numerous occasions about him that morning.

Sylvia Matthews, 71, was proclaimed dead at a nearby clinic on Dec. 4, as indicated by D.C. Metro Police, one day after they thought that she is scarcely bursting at the seams with a genuine head injury in the cellar of her home on Elmira Street in the city's southwest area.
Sylvia Matthews (through screen capture of WUSA)

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Matthews' denounced stalker, Michael Garrett, 66, was likewise in the cellar, as indicated by WUSA-TV. He purportedly told police he had

Just showed up to beware of Matthews and found

Her there, as per NBC Washington. Police captured Garrett at the scene and accused him of attack with plan to kill. He has since been accused of second degree murder while furnished, police told the Grio on Saturday.

WUSA reports Matthews met Garrett in 1998 while he was secured up in the prison where WBNS reports she filled in as a prison guard. He was out of prison on Jan. 22, 1999, when Matthews heard glass break higher up in her home and found it was Garrett moving through her restroom window, as per court records acquired by WBNS.

Garrett supposedly pursued Matthews outside her home before police showed up and observed him stowing away in a storage room in Matthews' storm cellar, the
Following, attack with a hazardous weapon, annihilation of property and numerous counts of thievery before at last being condemned to 24 years in jail, as indicated by different sources.

D.C. Prevalent Court Judge Robert Okun allowed Garrett a "empathetic delivery" from jail two years ahead of schedule in March in view of COVID-19 flare-ups at a D.C. prison, resisting the desires of the U.S. Lawyer's Office, as indicated by WUSA.

After seven months, on Oct. 7, Garrett was captured again for purportedly undermining Matthews at the front entryway of her home. Fifteen days from that point forward, police told columnists Garrett beat Matthews outside her home, yet his arraignment was suspended for anonymous reasons, as indicated by WUSA.

Matthews called police on Garrett to some degree twice during the morning of Dec. 3 when he showed up external her home once more, the nearby news site revealed. The primary call came
Around 7:30 a.m. at the point when police said Matthews announced Garrett was breaking into her vehicle and endeavoring to break into her home, per WUSA. Officials allegedly didn't find Garrett when they reacted to the scene.

At 8:44 a.m. Matthews called again to say she saw Garrett outside once more. This time, he was on the telephone with her, as indicated by WUSA. Police who showed up on the scene purportedly took Matthews' telephone and advised Garrett to leave her be, however he hung up.

Almost two hours after the fact, a battle supposedly broke out inside Matthews' home, as per WUSA. Witnesses told specialists they heard and saw somebody matching Garrett's portrayal shouting at Matthews and endeavoring to break into her home. Officials who showed up on the scene minutes after the fact said they tracked down Garrett in the cellar with Matthews' close inert body, which had endured "obvious injury."

One of Matthews' family members told correspondents her family is "crushed" by her supposed killing.
"It resembles the framework bombed us," the anonymous relative told NBC Washington.