Washington police have another woman in custody in connection with the brutal killing of David Messerschmitt. Earlier reports suggested a lone assailant, possibly the woman captured on hotel security video fleeing the scene. That led to the arrest of Jamyra Gallmon and the revelations that Gallmon posed as a man online seeking solicitations from other men and then robbed them at their arranged meeting.
Now Gallmon’s girlfriend is in police custody.
19-year-old Dominique Johnson was arrested Wednesday morning. She is charged with conspiracy to commit robbery. Her first court appearance will be Thursday.
Last Wednesday, police arrested 21-year-old Jamyra Gallmon. She is charged with murder.
Sources tell FOX 5 that Johnson is the girlfriend of Gallmon. FOX 5 has learned that the suspects lived together at an apartment on Good Hope Road in Southeast. Neighbors say the couple had very heated arguments in the past couple of weeks.
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We’ll update with more information as it becomes available.
UPDATE (4/8/15, 5:37 p.m.): While the above news report claims Johnson was charged with murder, the official press release from the Washington Metropolitan Police Department claims she was charged only with “conspiracy to commit robbery.”
Additional Arrest Made in Connection to Homicide: 1100 block of 14th Street, Northwest (Washington, DC)- Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch have announced an additional arrest has been made in connection to the stabbing death of 30 year-old David Messerschmitt, who was found on Tuesday, February 10, 2015, shortly after 11:00 am, in the 1100 block of 14th Street, Northwest.
On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at approximately 7:45 am 19 year-old Dominique Johnson was arrested pursuant to a District of Columbia Superior Court Arrest Warrant and charged with Conspiracy to Commit Robbery.
That said, given the nature of felony murder, that murder charge is inevitable.
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Second woman arrested in DC lawyer’s stabbing death [FOX DC]