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.
He was already wanted for an unrelated rape and murder. She was just the target he selected for the same reason. Maybe he saw her at a coffee shop. Maybe he just saw her on the street.
Well I think that was the original question. Is there some sort of relationship that is not being mentioned. We know he has a past and looks like a person that could very well have done this. But why? Is it just some person at the wrong place and wrong time? Or did he know her?
some people are just fucked up. not everything has to come from trauma.
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Somebody had to be the first murderous bastard.
Any number of traumas don’t require a previously-traumatized person to be inflicted.
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.
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.
Those nations may have people who are better at hiding their drug use or homosexuality, or more people repressing it, but that’s NOT a good thing.
They’re are crimes worth being more strict about, and crimes that shouldn’t even be crimes.
I’ll also note that being more strict about a given crime doesn’t necessarily mean just throwing them in a cell and throwing away the key. If the only response you have for someone doing something wrong is punishment, you aren’t actually going to make anything better for anyone.
Proper, and actually effective policies to deter most crimes (that are actually worth being crimes ) MUST include supporting education, public health, (both physical and mental), economic strength and balance, as well as supporting and rehabilitating those convicted of crimes, and researching the REAL factors that drive crime whether they be economic, environmental, or otherwise. For example, in the years since we stopped using leaded gas in cars, there has been a significant decrease in certain types of violent crime because we’re no longer poisoning our brains with lead. Countries with good sex education and safe, legal abortions also tend to see statistically noticable reductions in crime.
For example, after Portugal decriminalized drug use, side from the obvious reduction in drug related prison population, drug overdose deaths went down, and remain below EU average. And to this day Portugal has one of the lowest rates of drug use in the EU. So what’s the point of being’strict’ on the crime of drug use???
Money spent fighting the inequalities and injustices that lead to crimes is far more effective than money spent in punishment.
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Sorry, didn’t realize you’re unable to process any opposing viewpoint more complex than “Nuh-uh”.
Yep, just like Florida had the lowest covid rates in the country.
Oh, but that was because they stopped testing… hmm, but people not openly using drugs in countries that heavily criminalize them surely aren’t just doing them in secret.
Right?
Uhh, no. You’re trying to use an analogy to distract from the topic at hand. It’s not a 1:1 representation of the situation we’re talking about, but serves as a good tool to debate the accuracy of the analogy instead of the actual subject.
Do you disagree that: “Nations with the strictest drug laws have the fewest users” or “nations that have laws against homosexuality. Fewer people are openly gay in them.”
No need to bring florida into this, unless you’re relying on mental gymnastics. Hence my comment about fantasy worlds.
There’s every reason to bring the Florida example into this, Mr. Debatelord.
Covid rates went down in Florida because they stopped testing, not because they didn’t have covid.
Very relevant when trying to suggest that punitive action towards gay people/ drug users result in less of both. The answer is, no they don’t, they just hide. That does not make the punishment “effective”. What you’re saying is like saying that they’re punished so they just magically aren’t gay anymore lmao.
Sure buddy, whatever you say.
There was a Target that reported every theft in SF for a month. It doubled the crime stats for the city, so the city told them to stop reporting theft.
This is real life, not statistics. Eye witness and community member complaints.
By the time you get here with it, it’s just hearsay. Not sure why you’re expecting it to be compelling.
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.
Yeah, prison being for rehabilitation is pretty stupid.
It also doesn’t make sense to defund the police if you don’t own a gun and can’t fight.
So you’d rather lock someone up for a few years, make it near impossible for them to get employment upon release and just hope for the best? Or do we bear the expense of tossing away the key or killing them instead?
As for funding - a cop with a gun is clearly the best option dealing with situations like someone having a mental heath crisis - much safer, cheaper, and freer to shoot them or toss them in prison too! We can’t rest on our laurels with the highest incarceration rate in the world. Reallocating portions of those police resources to people like counsellors hasn’t had dramatically better outcomes wherever it’s been tried (unlike throwing more money at the police, of course), but I’m clearly preaching to the choir on this one.
I’d suggest you ease off the boot-licking a little - I think the boot polish might have gotten to your brain.
make it near impossible for them to get employment upon release and just hope for the best?
Nice hyperbole. Sorry man, I’m not going to argue with you because you’re not going to argue in good faith.
Come back when you can use logic and reason instead of emotion.
I’d suggest you ease off the boot-licking a little
Yeah. The first number you call when there’s danger is 911. You’re not fooling anyone.
Goodbye. Gonna block you now.
Shame you can’t call the cops on anyone on the internet that calls you on your bullshit, eh?
Background checks, and recidivism rates speak for themselves.
What a fragile simpering dipshit you are.
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!!
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