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UPDATE Nov. 30, 2:27 p.m.: D.C. police have identified the girl whose body was found stuffed in a trash can on Monday as 17 year-old Ebony Franklin of Capitol Heights, Md.

Franklin's death was ruled a homicide. Police say she was stabbed to death.

The girl's mother said Ebony disappeared Friday night while in transit from her home in Capitol Heights to her father's home in D.C.

The mother said Ebony had attended Northwestern High School in Hyattsville but recently transferred to Cardozo High School after she moved in with her father.

Police have reported on community listservs that she was not a Cardozo student.

Video after the jump.

UPDATE, 4:26 p.m.: D.C. police say the body appears to be that of a teenage girl, and that she appears to have been murdered.

Sources said the victim appeared to be 16 or 17 years old.

An autopsy will be conducted to determine the official cause and manner of death.

ORIGINAL STORY, 2:55 p.m.: D.C. police say they have found "what appears to be a human body" in a trash receptacle in Columbia Heights.

The apparent female human remains were found Monday in an alley in the 1000 block of Fairmont Street NW.

No further details were immediately available.

ABC7 News has a crew on scene. Check back for updates.