Credit: Bucks County District Attorney’s Office
Prosecutors filed paperwork Thursday to pursue the death penalty against 28-year-old Jaleel Lamar Loper.
Loper, a Philadelphia resident, is accused of killing 30-year-old Anna Angok, who was pregnant, inside her unit at the Glen Hollow Apartments off Newportville Road in Bristol Township’s Croydon section on September 26, 2018. The lifeless body of the 30-year-old woman was discovered with her 2-year-old daughter in tears sitting nearby.
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The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office notice of aggravating circumstances requested the right to seek the death penalty is Loper is found guilty of first-degree murder. Prosecutors listed two aggravating circumstances – a history of felony convictions and the fact Angok was in her third trimester of pregnancy.
No date for trial has been set.
Angok died of strangulation. Her body was found with black and blue bruising around her neck and abrasions.
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Loper told investigators after the death that he had been arguing with his ex-girlfriend Angok in the days leading up to her murder. He also said he knew she was pregnant.
As of August 1, 139 people are on Pennsylvania’s death row, but the governor has imposed a moratorium on executions. Those from Bucks County are: Robert Flor, Robert Diamond, Marcel Johnson, and Richard Laird.
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