Co-owner of U Street restaurant found dead
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By Paul Duggan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 3, 2009; 6:10 PM
The 38-year-old co-owner of a U Street corridor restaurant was found dead Monday night, and D.C. police think she might have been strangled.
Nora Amaya, who owned Coppi's Organic Restaurant with her brother, was found dead about 9 p.m. in a home in the 3600 block of 16th Street NW, police said. They said an autopsy would be conducted Tuesday, but detectives were handling the case as a possible homicide.
Amaya co-owned and managed the Italian restaurant, open since 1993 at 1414 U St. NW. Her brother Carlos Amaya, the restaurant's chef, was not available Tuesday to discuss his sister's death, said a man who answered the phone at the restaurant.
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