Crime & Safety
Clackamas County Government: UPDATE - Tate Pleads Guilty To March 2021 Homicide On Oak Shore Lane
Tate was sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
December 16, 2021
UPDATE (Thursday, Dec. 16) -- TATE PLEADS GUILTY, SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON
On Thursday, Dec. 16, Nistasha Rose Tate accepted a plea deal for Murder in the 2nd Degree in the March 2021 killing of 63-year-old Milwaukie resident Jimmy Alan Pearson.
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Tate was sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
The Sheriff's Office would like to thank the many partners who helped us to bring Nistasha Rose Tate to justice.
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EARLIER (Tuesday, April 13, 2021) -- SUSPECT ARRESTED IN FLORIDA
Photos of suspect Nistasha Rose Tate:
On Monday, April 12, 2021, at a Florida Greyhound station, a U.S. Marshals Service task force arrested the prime suspect in the early-March murder of Jimmy Alan Pearson.
Jimmy Alan Pearson
Suspect Nistasha Rose Tate, 23, is currently being held in the Hillsborough County Orient Road Jail, where she awaits extradition to Clackamas County. She is being held without bail on a Clackamas County warrant for Murder II and Robbery.
Nistasha Rose Tat
Jimmy Alan Pearson was shot and killed at his Milwaukie home on March 1. His body was discovered two days later, on March 3.
Authorities had developed Nistasha Tate as a possible suspect in Pearson's murder shortly after the discovery of Pearson's body in his home. Thanks to forensic analysis, detectives learned Tate visited Pearson on the date of the murder, March 1. A routine Milwaukie PD traffic stop of Tate's vehicle in the vicinity of the crime, before the discovery of Pearson's body, further confirmed her presence in the area on the night of the murder. Inside her vehicle during the traffic stop were items later determined to belong to Pearson.
Over the following weeks, detectives worked with partner agencies including the U.S. Marshals Service to quietly continue their investigation of Tate. Authorities learned she had traveled to North Carolina and then to Florida.
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