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Columbus police arrested a man Tuesday afternoon that is accused of killing his homeless girlfriend.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Columbus police arrested a man Tuesday afternoon after a woman was found dead at a Downtown homeless camp.

Police were called to the camp, which sits across from the railroad tracks from the Mound Street dead end, about 8 a.m., Columbus police homicide Sgt. David Sicilian told the Columbus Dispatch.

Other homeless individuals at the camp quickly told police what happened; identified a male suspect and told officers where he could be found, the Dispatch reports.

"We quickly determined it was a homicide investigation," Sicilian said.

The man was arrested just before 12 p.m., according to the Dispatch.

Witnesses told police that the man accused in the woman's death was her boyfriend, the Dispatch reports. He lived with her at the camp.

Neither the deceased woman nor the male suspect's identities have been released by police. The woman's cause of death has also not been released, according to the Dispatch.

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