Two Men Arrested in Stabbing Death of Herndon Woman

Two men were arrested this week in the stabbing death of Erika Yancey, who was found dead inside her car in the Herndon area in November, Fairfax County police said Wednesday.

Yancey, 22, worked at Dulles International Airport moving airplanes, her family said, and she lived nearby at the Camden Dulles Station apartments, just off Sunrise Valley Drive near the Dulles Toll Road. She was reported missing, along with her car, Nov. 17, and the building's manager noticed a trail of blood in the parking lot.

Two days later, Yancey was found in her gray 2007 Hyundai Elantra along Sunrise Valley Drive. She had been stabbed in the upper body, her family said.

Fairfax homicide detectives worked the case persistently and recently obtained murder indictments from a Fairfax grand jury for two suspects. On Monday, Michael Thomas, 27, of the 5200 block of Newton Street in Bladensburg, agreed to meet with detectives at the Mason district station. He was arrested there, police said.

On Tuesday, U.S. marshals arrested Marcus Williams, 28, in Sterling Heights, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, police said. He was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday to determine whether he would agree to be extradited to Virginia.

Williams was Yancey's roommate in Herndon, Fairfax Officer Bud Walker said. Thomas is a friend of Williams's but did not live with them, Walker said. Walker did not know a motive for the killing.