Fatal stabbing of 30-year-old lawyer David Messerschmitt, who suffered multiple stab wounds in an attack at the Donovan Hotel on Tuesday | Craig Hicks, 46, has been arrested and charged with three counts of murder in the shootings. The FBI has been working with the Chapel Hill Police Department on the investigation
Wife of man found dead in hotel tells police he had been acting normally Friday February 13 th , 2015 at 6:38 PM 1 Share D.C. police release video of person of interest in Thomas Circle stabbing (1:39) D.C. police officials have identified a person of interest in the fatal stabbing of 30-year-old lawyer David Messerschmitt, who suffered multiple stab wounds in an attack at the Donovan Hotel on Tuesday. (YouTube/DC Metropolitan Police Department) D.C. lawyer David Messerschmitt texted his wife at 7:34 p.m. Monday, saying he’d be home in about an hour, according to police documents. That was the last time his family heard from the 30-year-old, who was found fatally stabbed the next morning in a downtown Washington hotel room. Minutes after that text, an unidentified person being sought for questioning in the death walked into the lobby of the Donovan hotel at Thomas Circle, according to surveillance video released by District po