A man has been arrested in the death of a 76-year-old D.C. resident who police said was beaten in September.

       D.C. police charged Clifton Browne, 57, with second-degree murder in the killing of Luther Brooks, 76, of Northwest Washington. Documents filed in D.C. Superior Court say the two men were involved in a dispute over a rental unit.

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       On Sept. 28, officers responded about 2:10 p.m. to a report of a possible assault in the 1300 block of Kalmia Road NW, in the Shepherd Park neighborhood, police said. The officers found Brooks with injuries “consistent with an assault,” police said.

       Brooks was taken to a hospital, where he died of his injuries on Oct. 8, police said.

       Police say a 76-year-old man was fatally beaten in Northwest Washington

       Police said on Oct. 10 that an autopsy revealed “multiple blunt force trauma injuries” as Brooks’s cause of death and that the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide.

       It was not immediately clear whether Browne had an attorney.

       Peter Hermann contributed to this report.