Convicted sex offender, Jason Dean Billingsley, is the subject of a manhunt. He is accused of the rape and murder of Baltimore Tech CEO, Pava LaPere. 

 The Baltimore Police Department held a press conference on Tuesday evening. Authorities are intensifying their efforts to bring the alleged perpetrator to justice. Police have characterized Billingsley as "armed and dangerous" and highlighted his previous criminal record.

"Every single police officer in Baltimore City, the state of Maryland, as well as the U.S. Marshals, are looking for you," Acting Police Commissioner Richard Worley declared directly to Billingsley, who had been released from incarceration in October of the previous year.

Billingsley, 32, is a known sex offender with a long police record for sexual assaults. He pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in 2009. He pleaded guilty again in 2011 for second-degree assault. His last conviction was for a first-degree sex offense in 2015. 

He was sentenced to 30 years in prison. The  Baltimore Banner reported that 16 years of his sentence were suspended. And although he was supposed to serve 14 years he was released on parole in October 2022 on good-time credits.

Acting Police Commissioner Richard Worley issued a warning to the public, saying, "We implore residents to be aware of your surroundings at all times. This individual will kill and he will rape. He will do anything he can to cause harm."

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The building where the victim was killed was secure.

Police are convinced that Billingsley and LaPere did not know each other. “Someone had allowed the individual into the building,” Worley said.

LaPere’s company, EcoMap Technologies operates on the lower floor of the apartment building. The company is listed as having 30 employees.

The discovery of Pava LaPere's lifeless body on the roof of her apartment building came less than one day after she was reported missing. Police found her partially clothed body with signs of blunt-force trauma late Monday morning.

The news of her tragic death has sent shockwaves through the local community where she is well-known. On the weekend before she died the Baltimore Tech CEO visited with her friends at Artscape, a three-day art festival in the city. 

LaPere, 26, attended Johns Hopkins University. She went on to become the founder of the data-curating startup EcoMap Technologies in Baltimore.

Councilman Mark Conway shared his memories of meeting LaPere at the event, where they "geeked out over Anderson, Paak, and environmental data."