A California man accused in the vicious beating death of a woman at a residential hotel in Oakland has multiple serious convictions on his record and once told police that he was “not fit for society if I keep doing s*** like this.”
Jeffrey McMaster Jr., 44, has been charged with the murder of 49-year-old Leslie Marshall on February 2, The Mercury News reports. Marshall was found in the back of the Twin Peaks Motel , where both she and McMaster lived.
Police said he kicked and pummeled Marshall to death in full view of a security camera and then walked back to his room, where he was found with blood on his hands. Authorities said he confessed.
McMaster was on probation for the 2023 beating of his roommate, the News said. That case was an elder abuse case, according to the East Bay Times. He pleaded no contest in that case, and had another elder abuse case a year earlier. He had several other arrests for violating parole, burglary, and possessing a weapon while jail and was also accused of attacking a cellmate while in prison, biting his ear, punching him in the head, and stabbing him with a pencil.
But it was the 2008 arrest in which he warned police he probably shouldn’t be on the streets. In that case, he was accused of attacking a woman with intent to rape, lying on her with his full body weight while leaning against her throat with his hand. She escaped when he suddenly got up to close a window and later confronted him by phone in a taped call in which he apologized, court records show.
When police arrived to arrest him, he told them he’d sexually assaulted multiple women before, adding that “I’m not fit for society if I keep doing s*** like this.”
He was ultimately sentenced to four years in state prison for that assault and required to register as a sex offender.
McMaster is being held without bail and is scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday.
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[Featured image: Jeffrey McMaster Jr/California Department of Justice]