Washington D.C. police have charged a woman with killing a lawyer in a case that has baffled cops ever since the victim was found stabbed to death at an upscale hotel in February.
Jamyra Gallmon, 21, was charged Wednesday with first-degree felony murder while armed in relation to the death of David Messerschmitt, Fox News reported.
Messerschmitt, a lawyer who lived with his wife in Capitol Hill, was found dead in a fourth floor room at the Donovan Hotel the morning of Feb. 10. There was blood everywhere- on the walls, floor and hotel room door, according to a court affidavit obtained by the station. A search of the room turned up a cellphone, computer, condom, enema and lubricant among other evidence.
Authorities did not say what led to Gallmon's arrest or how she knew the victim.
During the investigation, police released surveillance footage from the night of the murder of a hooded person of interest seen entering the hotel's stairwell after attempting to use the elevator, which was not working the evening of Feb. 9 when Messerschmitt checked into the hotel.
Gallmon is believed to be the person in the video.
It also remains unclear what Messerschmitt was doing at the hotel. The evening before he was found dead, he sent his wife at text at around 7 p.m. saying he would be home within an hour, Fox News previously reported.
That was the last Kim Vuong heard from her husband. She filed a missing persons report later that night, and Messerschmitt was found the next morning.
"In one day, I lost the most important person in my life and the man I loved so much," she told ABC News.
