WASHINGTON — Police arrested a second woman wanted in connection to the stabbing death of David Messerschmitt, a 30-year-old lawyer who was found dead in a Thomas Circle hotel in February.
On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police Department says police arrested 19-year-old Dominique Johnson at 7:45 a.m. She was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery.
Police would not give any more details about Johnson’s role in the crime.
Last week police arrested Jamyra Gallmon, 21. She is charged with murdering Messerschmitt inside a Donovan Hotel room Feb. 9. NBC Washington reports that she was not in the hotel room, but knew about the plot.
Gallmon arranged to meet the Messerschmitt through a Craigslist posting and intended to rob him, according to a criminal complaint.
Messerschmitt’s wife, Kim Vuong, had reported him missing and his body was found by hotel staff the next day.
Her defense attorney entered her plea of not guilty, claiming hers was “an imperfect self-defense.”
Court records show Gallmon and Johnson were in court together last month fighting a landlord-tenant issue as police were investigating Messerschmitt’s murder. They are both listed as defendants in the rent dispute, and it appears they lived together.
Messerschmitt was an attorney at a firm specializing in intellectual property law and lived on Capitol Hill with his wife.
Johnson is set to appear in D.C. Superior Court Thursday.
WTOP’s Megan Cloherty contributed to this report.
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the arrest location.
