BALTIMORE — (AP) — A man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Friday in the 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. 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.
He was sentenced to a total of three life terms, with the first two to be served simultaneously.
“Let me be clear, Mr. Billingsley should never see the light of day again,” Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates said at a news conference following the Friday morning hearing.
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 …