Two men have been arrested in a 2009 stabbing death in Clarendon.
Arlington County police said Monday that 20-year-old Roger K. Clark III, of Severn, and 24-year-old Javon Martin, of the District, are charged with murder in the Dec. 29, 2009, killing of Carl Diener.
Diener, 57, of Arlington, was found beaten and stabbed in the street at about 2:50 a.m. on the 3200 block of N. 13th Street. Diener, a retired government worker, had been walking to his job at the Arlington Sport and Health Club.
Authorities don’t believe Diener knew his assailants, said Det. Crystal Nosal, an Arlington County police spokeswoman. She said “evidence took us to them” and there were no apparent connections between Diener and the two men charged in his death.
Nosal declined to say what evidence pointed to Clark and Martin and would not comment on a motive in the case.
Clark was apprehended last Monday in Montgomery County and Martin was taken into custody in the District on Wednesday, Nosal said. Both are waiting to be extradited to Virginia.
Diener’s slaying stunned his friends and family and a $25,000 reward was offered for information that led to his killer. Nosal said she didn’t think anyone was receiving the reward because there wasn’t a tip that led to the arrests.
Arlington County Police Chief M. Douglas Scott said in a statement that the arrests show “there are no ‘cold cases’ in Arlington; we continue to investigate crimes long after they occur.”
