The suspect in last week’s vicious murder of a young Baltimore tech entrepreneur was sentenced to serve a 30-year sentence in prison in 2015 but got out in 2022 — not as a result of parole but because of an earned credit system for good behavior that’s become more liberal in recent years.
Jason Billingsley, 32, was taken into custody without incident in Bowie, Md., late Wednesday after being named the prime suspect in 26-year-old Pava LaPere’s murder.
By October 2022, Billingsley had earned enough “diminution credits” to trigger mandatory release after serving about nine years and three months of what had become a 14-year sentence.