A 28-year-old Burien man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for using a heavy backpack to beat his girlfriend to death in 2023 outside of a Kent 7-Eleven store.
Joviah Sebastian Jamerson entered the plea Oct. 1, according to court documents. He is scheduled to be sentenced at 3 p.m. Nov. 7 before King County Superior Court Judge Sandra Widlan in Room 4J of the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
“On May 13, 2023, in King County, WA, I intentionally assaulted Maria Apodaca-Tift by swinging my backpack at her several times, including while she was laying on the ground, and this contact caused internal injuries and led to her death,” Jamerson wrote, according to his guilty plea court documents…