Woman held in son’s death

A Sudanese woman who immigrated to the United States in 2005 is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of her 5-month-old son.

Marlen Ramadan Taboor, 21, was arrested Friday by Henrico County police and was being held last night in the Roanoke City Jail, according to law enforcement spokesmen.

Taboor, according to online court records, was charged in Roanoke last Tuesday in the death of her son, Christopher George, last October. It was unclear last night why Taboor was in the Richmond area. She was arrested in the 6300 block of Clover Lane in Henrico, near the intersection of Lakeside Avenue and Hilliard Road.

Taboor moved to the Roanoke area from Sudan in 2005, according to a news story then in The Roanoke Times.