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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) A jury from Beaver County convicted Jason Banks, Jr. yesterday morning of killing twenty-year-old Treonna Washington in an Aliquippa alley on Reed Street on August 17th, 2024. The decision took over a week and the conviction took place in Beaver County. Banks is guilty of both the murder of Washington as well as two other separate assaults hours before Washington was killed. Washington was also Banks’ girlfriend. Banks testified in this trial that his roommate, Shakeirs Foster, shot and killed Washington. However, Foster was the person that was with Washington and Banks in the alley before Washington was killed and testified during the trial that Banks shot and killed Washington. Banks received a life sentence in jail without paroleand he will be sentenced formally at a later date. A witness testified at the beginning of the trial for Banks that a party occurred with Washington and some of her friends on August 16th, 2024 when Banks showed up at the apartment of Washington in Linmar Terrace in Aliquippa. Washington was found dead the next day in an alley.