Police have been criticized for not warning the public about Billingsley after they began pursuing him for another violent home invasion days before the murder.
BALTIMORE — A man pleaded guilty Friday to killing Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere last September in an apparently random attack that shocked the city.
Jason Billingsley, 33, entered the guilty plea instead of going to trial Friday morning and was sentenced to life. He also pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of attempted murder in a separate arson and home invasion case that took place just days before LaPere was found dead on the rooftop of her downtown Baltimore apartment building.
Officials said the Monday plea agreement included two other life sentences.
LaPere, who founded a tech startup from her dorm room at Johns Hopkins University and was named to Forbes’ 30 under 30 list for social impact, died from strangulation and blunt force trauma after being sexually assaulted. She was remembered as someone…
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