Via MPD.

A judge sentenced the D.C. woman who fatally stabbed a lawyer in a downtown hotel earlier this year to 24 years in prison.

David Messerschmitt, a 30-year-old intellectual-property attorney, was mysteriously found dead on February 10 at the Donovan Hotel in Thomas Circle. According to the investigation, Messerschmitt had posted an ad on Craigslist soliciting a romantic meet up with other men. Jamyra Gallmon replied, with the intent of robbing him, and the two arranged to meet at a hotel room.

Police say Gallmon and an accomplice, Dominique Johnson, had planned only to rob him, but when Messerschmitt fought back, Gallmon stabbed him seven times. She then took his cell phone and SmarTrip and fled the scene.

Prosecutors said the pair had discussed committing a robbery and traveled together to the hotel that night. Johnson then used Messerschmitt’s SmarTrip for about six weeks.

Gallmon, 21, was charged with second-degree murder while armed in April, and pleaded guilty to killing Messerschmitt in May. Under the plea deal, she faced between 18 and 25 years in prison, and a judge sentenced her to 24 years today. Johnson was sentenced to a year in prison, but the judge suspended six months of it on the condition that she complete three years of probation.

“Jamyra Gallmon planned and carried out a cold-hearted scam to trick David Messerschmitt for the purpose of robbing him. Then she repeatedly stabbed him when he tried to fight back,” Acting U.S. Attorney Vincent Cohen said in a release. “After leaving Mr. Messerschmitt to die from his wounds, she met up with Dominique Johnson and they rode a bus home together with the proceeds of the crime. The sentences handed down today hold both of them accountable for their callous crimes and hopefully will warn others who are even considering such senseless violence.”