Jason Billingsley is wanted on charges of first-degree murder, assault and other offenses in connection with her death.
, with 16 years suspended, after he pleaded guilty to a first-degree sex offense. The Maryland sex offender registry placed him in “tier 3,” a designation for those with the most serious charges, which also requires offenders to register for life. He was released from prison in October.
Billingsley also previously pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in 2009 and second-degree assault in 2011, NBC reported. “There is no way in hell that he should have been out on the street,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said. “When the police go out and do their job, as they did in this case … and the state’s attorney goes out and does their work, gets the conviction, the conviction should be the conviction.
“We are tired of talking about the same people committing the same kind of crimes over and over again.” A spokesperson for Maryland’s Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said Billingsley had not been paroled but was released “Authorities have not yet provided any link between Billingsley and LaPere. A possible motive was also unclear.
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