the plan dupe a victim toiletry strain him and rob him. 30-year-old david messerschmitt agreed to meet gallmon at the donovan hotel for sex. but he realized she was a woman and they got in an altercation. gallmon pulled a knife and stabbed him repeatedly and left messerschmitt to die. >> a person lost a good person. >> messerschmitt's wife made an appeal in the case prior to football gal's arrest. tod

lawyer david messerschmitt was stabbed to death in his room at the donovan hotel. jamyra gallmon and her girlfriend dominique johnson responded to an ad on craigslist by messer smith. -- messerschmitt. gallmon pretends to be a man and went to the hotel with the intentions of robbing him. she stabbed him and robbed him and left him to die. johnson was not in the room but still convicted of conspiracy to commit robbery. the prosecution proving she knew about the plan to rob him. johnson's father spoke after hearing his daughter's sentence. >> we are truly saddened by this whole entire incident and i think it was fair you know. we got to be held accountable. you got to be held accountable. >> i mean obviously we're hoping for the most lenient sentence possible. yes. do i think the sentence was unjust? no. do i have a lot of respect for the judge who imposed this sentence and know that he give it a lot of consideration? yes. he did his job. >> reporter: in court, jamyra gallmon sat silent only showing emotion when her mother spoke. her mom says she is deeply sorry for

attorney david messerschmitt. prosecutors say gallmon and her girlfriend dominique johnson plotted to rob messerschmitt. she set up a meeting here at the hotel. police say gallmon went to messerschmitt's hotel room where she stabbed him multiple times. then robbed him taking his cell phone and his wallet. now johnson was not present for the murder, but according to court documents, she did help her girlfriend gallmon buy zip ties. johnson is facing up to fife years in -- five years in prison forerer hole and gallmon -- her role and gallmon is facing up the 25 years in prison. now the last time gallmon was in court, a judge asked her if she killed messerschmitt. she bit her lip and said yes. sentencing today is at 9:00. we'll be in the courtroom and we'll let you know what happens. live outside the donovan hotel. i'm nikki burdine, wusa9. >>> to the campaign trail. a college football stadium in alabama is about to be a packed house tonight. not for a game. but for a visit from donald trump. the next stop in a serie

in may, jamyra gallmon pleaded guilty to killing david messerschmitt. a judge ten sensed her -- sentenced her to 24 years in prison. her partner will serve six months in the gait. gallmon stabbed messerschmitt but he fought back. they found each other on an ad on craigslist. wall street reeling as the dow plummeted 530 points, 3.5% loss on the heels of yesterday's 350-point selloff. they combined to give wall street the worst week since 2011. oil prices dropped today closing at just over $40 a barrel. that is territory we haven't seen since the recession. tense moments on the campaign trail today. [inaudible] >> in iran and isis, it's a governmental body executing them for homosexual -- leon: that about res ellen paige squaring off at the iowa state fair with ted cruz. paige pushed cruz to answer for laws that allow lgbt people to be discriminated against in the workplace. the exchange lasted five minute. cruz said he had no idea that woman was paige. the exchange though a part of the fire works on the campaign trail today. as we look, it's over immigra

two women were charged with david messerschmitt's murder. one woman can face five years in prison and her friend, jamyra gallmon pleaded guilty to killing him when the robbery went wrong. >>> a montgomery county man accused of trying to cook meth will be in court today. the fbi says christopher bartley triggered an explosion at the national institute of standards and technology last month. that's in gaithersburg. he haves the leader of the -- he was the leader of the police force there. if convicted he could spend 20 years in prison. >>> students past and present will gather today to remember a montgomery county high school principal. a memorial service will be held tonight for wootton high school principal michael doran. police found him dead in his apartment on wednesday. they believe the 64-year-old died of natural causes. the service will take place at wootton stadium at 6:00 p.m. grief counselors will be on hand to help support students and their families. >>> right now in the newsroom, we are still having to keep a close eye on wildfir

the plan dupe a victim toiletry strain him and rob him. 30-year-old david messerschmitt agreed to meet gallmon at the donovan hotel for sex. but he realized she was a woman and they got in an altercation. gallmon pulled a knife and stabbed him repeatedly and left messerschmitt to die. >> a person lost a good person. >> messerschmitt's wife made an appeal in the case prior to football gal's arrest. today she and messerschmitt's brother told the judge of their pain. the judge sentenced to gallmon to 2 years in prison, citing the violent nature of the murder. her former girlfriend and the woman who helped gallmon plan the robbery got six months. dominic's father responded to camera. >> my apologies go out to messerschmitt's family. we are sadded by the incident. you have to be held accountable. >> gallmon is 21. johnson is 19 years old. the judge took her age into consideration. she was not in the hotel room when the murder went down. 19-year-old marcus king turned himself in this morning and a paperwork problem causing the delay. he is charged with shooting matthew shlonsky last weekend

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she did plead guilty to the stabbing death of lawyer david messerschmitt in the donovan hotel. another woman, her accomplish, dominique johnson will be spending six months in jail for conspiracy. after the sentencing, johnson said he thought the sentence his daughter received was fair. >> i am truly, truly saddened by this whole entire incident and i think it was fair. you know, we got to be held accountable. we got to be held accountable. . investigators stay in february, gallmon posed as a man when she answered an online ad placed by messerschmitt who wanted to meet at the donovan hotel on dupont circle. she mapped to rob messerschmitt and ended up stabbing him seven times when he resisted. >>> now for an update you will see only on news4. a school board member wants back on the prince george's county school board after being accused of trying get free school lunches for her kids. lynn monday works for the government accountability office and one of several employees charged with falsifying their income to get their kids free and reduced lunches at school. she resigned before

the victim, 38-year-old attorney david messerschmitt, killed at the donovan hotel in february. >> in d.c., there's maybe ten cases a year where it's a robbery that goes bad, somebody gets hurt, somebody gets killed. in this one, that's what happened in this case. >> reporter: galman answered an online ad for mers schmidt for a rendezvous with a man. she posed as a man, showed up at the hotel, intent on robbing messerschmitt. there was a struggle. he was stabbed seven times, including the neck and heart. gallmon's attorney says she had a flashback of being abused as a teen. the judge, bile acknowledging the past problems, say she is shouldn't have made them messerschmitt's problems. johnson's attorney, jonathan zucker, sought probation for his client. >> she had no role in the murder and only the most tangential role in the robbery. >> reporter: there was an unusual aspect to the victim impact statements delivered in court today. while it was an open courtroom, messerschmitt's widow presented her victim impact statement at the bench, only be heard by the judge, the attorneys and the c

accomplice domonique johnson was given six months for her role in the crime that claimed the life of david messerschmitt. prosecutors say gallmon plotted the robbery, tricked messerschmitt into thinking she was a man and stabbed him. we caught up to her father after the sentencing. he expressed remorse for his daughter's actions. >> we are truly saddened for this day and we got to be held accountable. >> messerschmitt's widow made a private impact statement to the judge. >>> also today the judge sentenced former baltimore ravens cheerleader seen here to 48 weekends in jail. molly shadduck pleaded guilty in june to raping a 15-year-old boy. she could have received up to 15 years. the victim was a classmate of her child and that boy's parents asked for jail time to send a message to other sexual predators. her attorney spoke to the media after sentencing. >> i think we may all find ourselves doing something that's completely out of character that we would never do and regretted it. so, you know, it's speculative what led her to engage in such an inappropriate relationship. >> the judge also ordered shaddu