Police arrest repeat offender suspected in murder of Baltimore tech CEO
Police arrest repeat offender suspected in murder of Baltimore tech CEO
LaPere, 26, who started a software company and was named one of Forbes' "30 Under 30," was found dead at a Baltimore apartment Monday.
Authorities have arrested the man suspected of killing of Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere, a U.S. Marshal confirmed, as police announced plans to reveal details of the capture following a major manhunt.
Baltimore police said they planned to announce the "arrest of murder suspect Jason Billingsley" in a news conference at 11 a.m. ET Thursday. No further details were released and police did not immediately respond to requests for comment from NBC News early Thursday.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Albert Maresca Jr. confirmed Billingsley's arrest to Baltimore-based NBC affiliate WBAL-TV. He said the suspect, who is 32, was apprehended at a train station in Bowie, Maryland.
Was this random or did he have a motive for killing her?
Just his normal behaviour
Somehow he got let out
Billingsley pleaded guilty to a first-degree sex offense and was sentenced in 2015 to 30 years in prison, with 16 of those years suspended, court records show. He was paroled in October.
That doesn't really answer the question, though. Most violence is done by people who are habitually violent, and most violence is not completely random and committed against strangers.
Dude is broken, but someone being traumatized and repeating a cycle of aggression and trauma doesn't actually explain any particular incident they have.
It's Baltimore. What do you expect.
Certainly not for the police to actually arrest someone. That's how I knew the victim was rich.
We need to be far more harsh on crime. Most good natured people aren't accidentally finding themselves the subject of police intervention.
Unfortunately we have strong laws on this already, this is a root cause problem.
Letting people out/off early is a problem. From what I understand, Illinois has eliminated cash bail, which has made crime way worse.
Edit: This site has a huge problem with people being loud about things they know nothing about. I know people who live in Chicago who are an active part of their community and crime has gone up insanely. There are a bunch of emergency meetings about the significant increase in armed robbery and carjackings. Apparently to people on this site, the comfort and feelings of criminals matter more than innocent people who are just trying to get by in their own community.
This obsession with being soft on criminals is so backwards and fucked up. Anyone who defends this is delusional and a threat to a safe society.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/chicagos-crime-problem-is-about-to-get-worse
Cite literally anything that says that stricter penalties lead to a decrease in crime. Your intuition is not a valid source.
Nations with the strictest drug laws have the fewest users.
Same with nations that have laws against homosexuality. Fewer people are openly gay in them.
I know you want to live in your fantasy world where nobody is deterred by punishment, but that's just not the world we live in.
It's sad this needs to be explained to so many of you, but that's what makes this a microcosm. The majority opinion here is not representative of the world as a whole, and in many times shouldn't be.
He doesn't need prison, he needs rehabilitation. and we need to defund the police. community defense is the best defense!!!
Cool. You know no one is falling for this right?
Not enough people are smart enough/ bothered enough to understand what that phrase really means.
It isn’t that people are “not falling for it,” they just take it at face value and brush it off because they don’t understand it or care.
We need to rehabilitate the rapists and murderers. They super pinky promise not to rape or kill again!!! It was just one time, come on... have some compassion!!
ra ra re kick em in the knee!