For hours Saturday, a pool of blood in a corner hallway of a Minneapolis public housing high-rise served as a grim reminder of a woman's violent death earlier in the day -- and spurred residents to plead for better security in the place they call home.
Police arrested a 48-year-old man who lives in the building and said they expect him to be charged with murder on Monday.
They are investigating the nature of the relationship between him and the victim, who tenants say was fatally stabbed. Her name was not released Saturday.
"Clearly they knew each other," said Lt. Amelia Huffman, head of the homicide unit.
Officers were called to the Elliot Twins Apartments, 1225 S. 8th St., about 8:30 a.m. Saturday after the woman was found dead by paramedics responding to a 911 call.
One tenant, Daniel Williamson, said he was briefly awakened around 5:30 a.m. by banging noises outside his ninth-floor apartment. He did not check on it because he thought it was just a neighbor stumbling by in a drunken stupor.
"I heard a voice say, 'Help me! Don't do this!'" Williamson said.
Three hours later, he heard police outside his door and saw blood splattered across the hall's walls and floors. While providing information to police later at City Hall, Williamson saw the suspect, who lives across the hall from him, wearing blood-stained clothing in police custody, he said.
