Ricardo Ponds, 61, is accused of killing Deborah Leatherberry, 54, late last month, police said. A 61-year-old man was arrested Wednesday evening for the shooting death of a 54-year-old woman whose body was found in a garbage can last month in the Mill Creek section of West Philadelphia, police said.

A West Philadelphia man is accused of fatally shooting a woman and then disposing her body in a trash can in the city's Mill Creek neighborhood late last month, police said. Ricardo Ponds, 61, was taken into custody by SEPTA Transit Police on Wednesday night at 15th and Market streets following an investigation into the death of 54-year-old Deborah Leatherberry.