Man who killed his roommate’s girlfriend after an “argument” in 2019 is sentenced to death

JACKSONVILLE, Florida. – The man who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder faces death for killing his roommate’s 25-year-old girlfriend and dumping her body in a plastic bin in 2019.

A judge sentenced Markas Fishburne to death on Thursday for the murder of Aisha Levy after a jury voted 10-2 in February.

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According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, investigators were called to the Green Tree Place Apartments on Princeton Square Boulevard after Fishburne’s roommate came home from work and found his apartment covered in blood.

Inside the apartment, JSO investigators found a woman, later identified as Levy, who they believed had been killed during an altercation.

Levy has a bright future ahead of her, her father Marlow Levy and stepmother Dr. Anthonia Levy told News4Jax.

According to Fishburne’s arrest report, Levy’s body had been wrapped and stuffed into a plastic box located in a closet.

Fishburne was taken into custody at the Jacksonville Greyhound Bus Terminal and arrested shortly before boarding a bus to Indiana. Fishburne told investigators that he and Levy had an “altercation,” the arrest report states.