infoMilwaukie homicide suspect arrested in Florida

Jimmy Alan Pearson, 63, of Milwaukie was shot and killed inside his home on March 1. His body was found two days later.

Detectives suspected Nistasha Rose Tate as a suspect shortly after discovering Pearson’s body and learning that she had visited him on the same night he was murdered. They later learned she had been pulled over that same night, and items belonging to Pearson were found inside her vehicle.

Over the next few weeks, detectives learned she had traveled to North Carolina and then to Florida.

U.S. Marshalls arrested Nistasha Rose Tate at a Florida Greyhound station.