A murder suspect reportedly raped and filmed another woman before setting two people on fire a week before allegedly murdering a tech CEO in his Baltimore apartment.
Jason Billingsley, 32, is accused of raping a woman at an Edmondson Avenue home after he posed as a maintenance worker a week before allegedly killing Pava LaPere, the Baltimore Banner reported.
He allegedly knocked on the door of the house on September 19. When no one answered, he kicked in the door and pointed a gun at two people inside before handcuffing and tying them up, sources told The Banner.
The dangerous criminal, who is still at large, is believed to have raped the woman and slit her throat before dousing her and a man with liquid and setting them on fire.
Both survived the near-fatal attack and were hospitalized along with a child who was also in the home, the outlet reported.
The couple had told authorities they had been tortured, a neighbor told the banner.
Billingsley was named as a suspect in the case last week.
A week later, on Monday, LaPere, the 26-year-old co-founder of EcoMap Technologies, was found dead on the roof of his West Franklin Street apartment. The CEO suffered blunt force trauma injuries, police said.
Baltimore police announced Billingsley as a suspect in the CEO’s murder the following day.
Jason Billingsley, 32, is accused of raping a woman and setting her and a man on fire a week before allegedly killing Pava LaPere, above.
It is believed that LaPere did not know his alleged attacker.
“I don’t know how he met the girl, where he met the girl, or how he got into her apartment,” her mother, Scarlett Billingsley, told NBC News.
He said his son had shown him the gun Monday, but believed he was trying to sell it. He also claimed he didn’t know where he was because “he wouldn’t tell me.”
Police have called Billingsley “extremely dangerous” and are advising the public to remain vigilant.
“He was going to kill and he was going to rape,” Police Commissioner Richard Worley said at a news conference Tuesday.
Billingsley, who is still at large, is believed to have raped a woman and slit her throat before dousing her and a man with liquid and setting them on fire a week before LaPere was found dead of blunt force trauma..AP
Police have also urged Billingsley to “turn yourself in” because “every police officer in Baltimore City, the State of Maryland, as well as the US Marshals are looking for you.”
“We’ll find you,” Worley vowed.
Billingsley’s mother also publicly pleaded with him to do the same, fearing that the authorities would kill him and that he would face the same fate as his brother, who died of gun violence in 2013.
“I told him to turn himself in because they were going to kill him,” Scarlett, 72, told NBC News. “I don’t want the police to shoot him because they think he has a gun.”
He apologized to LaPere’s mother, saying he was “very sorry if he did it.” However, he refused to say whether he believed his son committed the crime without evidence.
“I won’t know until I see some evidence if he did. Where’s the truth — show me some evidence,” he told NBC News.
Billingsley has a long rap sheet against him, including several sex crimes.
Baltimore police announced Billingsley as a suspect in the slaying of 26-year-old Pava LaPere on Tuesday, a day after she was found on the roof of a Mount Vernon apartment building with blunt force trauma wounds.Instagram / Pava LaPere
Billingsley was jailed after the 2013 attack and in 2015 made a deal to plead guilty to first-degree sexual assault and was sentenced to 14 years in prison, with 16 years suspended.
He was released on parole in October 2022 after serving nine years because he had accumulated enough credits for good behavior to gain mandatory release, according to the Baltimore Banner.
A career criminal and “repeat violent offender” was also convicted in 2009 and 2011.
LaPere’s family broke their silence on social media Tuesday, with his father honoring the entrepreneur as an “inspiration.”
“He is driven, creative, hardworking, and relentless in his pursuits, with his great team at EcoMap Technologies,” he wrote on Facebook.
Billingsley’s mother apologized to LaPere’s mother, saying she was “very sorry if she did it.” However, he refused to say whether he believed he did it without evidence. Instagram / Pava LaPere “I won’t know until I see some evidence if he did. Where is the truth — show me some evidence,” said the suspect’s mother. Pava LaPere / Instagram
He said his daughter “made an impact in every endeavor she did and in every life she touched. She will forever be missed as a daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin, and loyal friend.”
Another relative, Ashley Freeman, shared her own tribute to LaPere on Facebook.
“You think it won’t be your family, friends, or co-workers. The harsh reality is that we live in a very sick world, where some people’s goal is to harm innocent lives [of] others,” Freeman wrote.
“Our family has been affected by the senseless act of violence that took the life of our beautiful, accomplished and highly intelligent Pava. He was on his way to change the world, but someone took it away from him.”
A vigil is being held for LePere by his company on Wednesday at the Washington Monument in Baltimore.
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