Police Seek Information About Email Address in Connection with Lawyer's Murder

PHOTO: Screen shot of person of interest in Messerschmitt homicide taken from surveillance video at The Donovan Hotel in DC and released by police; David Messerschmitt, DC lawyer who was stabbed to death at the hotel Feb. 10.

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Detectives from the Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Branch are asking anyone who has knowledge of the an email address to contact the Metropolitan Police department.

Police say it is believed the email address may be connected to the homicide of 30 year-old David Messerschmitt, a lawyer who lived on Capitol Hill who was found dead Tuesday, Feb. 10, shortly after 11 a.m., at The Donovan, a luxury hotel in DC at 1155 14th St. NW. He was found shortly after he was reported missing by his wife.

The email address is: chrissanchez0906@yahoo.com

WTOP reports that the woman who police have charged with killing Messerschmitt at the hotel arranged to meet him through a Craigslist ad and intended to rob him, citing a criminal complaint filed Thursday. She is seen in a surveillance video taken at the hotel, released by police.

Police say the woman, Jamyra Gallmon, 21, 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 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 of Forestville Military Academy in Prince George’s County, Md.

Gallmon made her first court appearance 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 Thursday regarding the 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.”

Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the police at (202) 727-9099. Additionally, anonymous information may be submitted to the department’s TEXT TIP LINE by text messaging 50411.