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(Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C.)

The Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C. said they have located the car of a former midstate woman found stabbed to death earlier this week.

Investigators are also continuing to search for a man they say is a person of interest in the death of 34-year-old Corrina Mehiel. Police have not said why the man is considered a person of interest in her death.

Police have released new photos of the man, as well as a video taken at a convenience store. He is believed to have frequented the Beltville and Laurel areas of Maryland.

Mehiel was discovered in a basement apartment in the 600 block of 14th Street NE about 4 p.m. Tuesday. She had been bound and stabbed and her car was taken, police said.

On Friday, police announced that her car was located but they did not say where.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the police at 202-727-9099. Anonymous information may be submitted to the department's text tip line by text messaging 50411.

Mehiel, who was executive director of Harrisurg nonprofit Danzante from 2008 to 2010, was an artist and teacher at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design in Washington, D.C. She hailed from Burnsville, North Carolina and was living in D.C. temporarily, according to reports.

She specialized in community engagement art, and was working with the artist Mel Chin.

She was a project assistant at Mel Chin Studio and taught studio and socially engaged art at The Art Academy of Cincinnati, according to her website. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati and a B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University. She has exhibited nationally and abroad, and presented papers on her research at the College Art Association Annual Conference and the Perspectives on Arts Ed Research in Dusseldorf, Germany.

She was a 2000 graduate of Trinity High School in Cumberland County.