A convicted felon suspected of killing tech CEO Pava LaPere in his Baltimore apartment was arrested Wednesday night, according to authorities and reports.
Jason Billingsley, 32, who was considered an extremely dangerous fugitive, was captured shortly after 11:10 p.m. in Bowie, Maryland, after being there for two days, according to a since-deleted tweet by the US Marshals Service in Baltimore.
Sources also confirmed to local station Fox 45 News that investigators tracked the fugitive to the MARC train station on Laurel-Bowie Road, where they arrested him without incident.
Billingsley was named the sole suspect in the slaying of LaPere, who was reported missing Monday and later found dead of blunt force trauma to the head.
The 26-year-old founder of EcoMap Technologies, who was named to this year’s Forbes 30 under 30 list for social impact, was found badly beaten and partially clothed on the roof of his luxury Baltimore apartment building.
Billingsley is still on parole for the violent rape and assault of a 25-year-old woman in 2013.
Police are warning the public to be wary of the alleged killer — who is also a suspect in a horrific attack on a man and woman about a week before LaPere was found dead.
Jason Billingsley was arrested shortly after 11:10 pm in Bowie, Maryland, after two days on the lam.APP The 26-year-old EcoMap Technologies founder was found severely beaten and partially clothed.Pava LaPere / InstagramLaPere was found on the roof of his building after he was beaten to death. MEGA
Billingsley is being watched as the man who broke into the man and woman’s home, where he handcuffed and bound them at gunpoint and then allegedly raped the woman before slitting her throat.
He then allegedly doused them in liquid and set them on fire, nearly killing them. A 5-year-old child who was in the house also inhaled smoke.
“This individual will kill and he will rape. He will do anything he can to cause injury,” acting Police Commissioner Richard Worley warned.
Billingsley (unseen) is seen as the man who broke into the man and woman’s home, where he handcuffed and bound them at gunpoint and then allegedly raped the woman before slitting her throat. Instagram / Pava LaPereLaPere’s family speaks during a vigil Wednesday in Baltimore.APSherrod Davis, co-founder of EcoMap Technologies and a friend of LaPere, shed tears during a vigil in his memory Wednesday.AP
Billingsley was released from prison on parole in October 2022 after serving nine years of a 14-year sentence because he had accumulated enough credits for good behavior to gain release, according to the Baltimore Banner.
He had pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual assault for the 2013 attack and was sentenced to 14 years in prison with another 16 years suspended as part of a plea deal struck by former DA Marilyn Mosby’s office.
The judge at the time said he did not think the sentence was enough but allowed it because the victim did not want to testify at trial.
Billingsley did not know LaPere and it was unclear how he got into her apartment building. Pava LaPere / Instagram Billingsley was released from prison on parole in October 2022 after serving nine years of a 14-year sentence because he had accumulated enough good-behavior credits to gain release. Baltimore Police DepartmentMaryland officers held a press conference Tuesday, providing an update on the LaPere Murder while displaying an old mugshot of Billingsley.AP
Billingsley did not know LaPere and it was unclear how he got into her apartment building.
The young CEO launched his own company, EcoMap Technologies, from his dorm room at Johns Hopkins University. The company strives to make information about what is happening in different ecosystems accessible to all.
“Pava has been an inspiration to many,” his father, Frank LePere, wrote on Facebook.
“He is driven, creative, hard-working and relentless in his pursuits, with his great team at EcoMap Technologies.”
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