Weeks after the murder case against a Durham woman was dismissed, police have arrested another woman in a 2024 strangulation death, court records show.
Alicia Nicole Fleming, 25, of Williamston is charged with second-degree murder in the December 2024 death of Mikel Johnson, 40, according to her arrest warrant. Johnson died days after being strangled at a Durham home Dec. 7, 2024, The News & Observer previously reported.
Patricia Ayers, 32, was initially charged with felony assault by strangulation, then murder in Johnson’s death. She spent over a year in jail without bail. But her charges were dismissed last month, roughly half a year after Assistant District Attorney Michael Wallace admitted in court there wasn’t enough evidence to hold her in jail…