SEATTLE, WA - Police are investigating the first homicide of 2017. Police say that a man killed an acquaintance in an apartment in the Rainier Beach neighborhood on Sunday night.

Police were called to the apartment along the 8400 block of Rainier Avenue South around 10 p.m. They found a person dead inside the apartment, but the assailant had fled the scene.

As of 9 a.m. Monday, police reported that they had caught the suspect without incident in SeaTac. Detectives are still investigating the circumstances surrounding the homicide.