Police Make Second Arrest in DC Lawyer Homicide

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch announced Wednesday that they have made an additional arrest in connection with the stabbing death of 30 year-old David Messerschmitt.

Messerschmitt, 30, was found Feb. 10, shortly after 11 a.m., in the 1100 block of 14th Street, Northwest at The Donovan, a luxury hotel.

On Wednesday, April 8, at approximately 7:45 a.m., 19 year-old Dominique Johnson was arrested pursuant to a District of Columbia Superior Court Arrest Warrant and charged with Conspiracy to Commit Robbery, police said in a news release.

Messerschmitt was found Feb. 10 shortly after he was reported missing by his wife.

DC Police were searching for anyone with a connection to the email address ichrissanchez0906@yahoo.com

Police have already arrested Jamyra Gallmon, 21, the woman who police have charged with killing Messerschmitt at the hotel. Police say she arranged to meet him through a Craigslist ad and intended to rob him, according to a report by WTOP, citing a criminal complaint. She is seen in a surveillance video taken at the hotel, released by police.

Gallmon, of Good Hope Road in Southeast D.C., is charged with murdering Messerschmitt inside a room at the Donovan Hotel. Investigators reportedly used the email exchanges to track down Gallmon, arresting her last Wednesday at her house.

The Washington Post reports that Messerschmitt had “posted on Craigslist, hoping for a sexual encounter with a man, according to police charging documents and officials familiar with the case.”

Gallmon is a former high school basketball star who was interested in a career in law enforcement, the Post reported. She is a graduate ofForestville Military Academy in Prince George’s County, Md.

Gallmon made her first court appearance last Thursday. Her defense attorney entered a “not guilty” plea, claiming her’s was “an imperfect self-defense,” WTOP reported. Matthew Davies, Gallmon’s defense attorney, said the case was one of “imperfect self-defense.” Davies, the Washington Post reported, argued that “when Messerschmitt allegedly grabbed her arm and became aggressive with Gallmon, she had a flashback to a previous incident and reacted.”

According to the WTOP report, cellphone and email records led police to Gallmon, and she reportedly responded to a Craigslist ad that Messerschmitt had posted to solicit men.

Family and friends of the young woman are reportedly shocked about the arrest and murder charge. “ Jamyra was a wonderful person, she was a wonderful student. Real low key, real calm individual,” Forestville Coach Vincent McDuffie told FOX-5. He told the station that Gallmon aspired to play college basketball until she suffered a knee injury.

Messerschmitt’s widow Kim Vuong released a statement last Thursday regarding the first arrest. “I would like to thank the Metropolitan Police Department for their hard work and continued diligence,” she said. “I have faith that the police and the courts will bring justice to David and all who loved him. I will have no further comment until his case is resolved and I continue to ask for privacy for me and family.”

PHOTO: David Messerschmitt