Shocking news has just struck the city of Baltimore as prominent tech CEO Pava Marie LaPere was discovered dead in her luxury apartment in Mount Vernon. The 26-year-old was the CEO of a $7 million company and a social impact entrepreneur.
According to police, she was killed by blunt force trauma inside her apartment. No suspects have been arrested yet, and the authorities are still trying to figure out the possible motives behind this heinous crime.
This news has sent reverberations throughout the entire community.
Pava Marie LaPere, a 26-year-old tech CEO & Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee, found murdered in her luxury apartment in Baltimore.
LaPere was the CEO of EcoMap Technologies, a $7 million company she launched at 22. The circumstances surrounding her death are still under investigation. pic.twitter.com/rFTYI2bSxC
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LaPere had attended John Hopkins University before starting her own company EcoMap Technologies at the age of 22. Her remarkable work earned her several prestigious recognitions such as Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, Baltimore’s 40 Under 40 list, and Maryland’s 25 Under 25 lists for innovation.
In 18 months from its launch, EcoMap Technologies had raised a total of $7million in funding. The company uses technology to create platforms that digitize ecosystems from entrepreneurial communities to corporate networks with information about resources, organizations, businesses and people within any given community being kept continually up-to-date.
Her clients included The Aspen Institute, Meta Fund, WXR Fund and T Rowe Price Foundation – incredible achievements for someone so young.
Officers arrived around 11:34am to her apartment complex in the 300 block of West Franklin Street on Monday, September 25 only to find LaPere dead with signs of blunt-force trauma all over her body.
According to investigators there had been a missing person’s call made for her a short time before they found her dead body which was obviously horrifying news for fellow tenants like Chris Mcnees who said “For that to happen anywhere in the city is obviously a bad thing but it’s hard to imagine why this would happen specifically in this building.”
Our thoughts go out Pava Marie LaPere’s family and friends as well as everyone else affected by this tragedy.
