PALATKA, Fla. — The man accused of stabbing a woman more than 40 times outside a Fruitland Dollar General store now faces the death penalty.
Lemar Beasley was arrested in November for what investigators said was an unprovoked attack.
Cheyenne Kastens, 36, died at the hospital.
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Beasley was indicted on First Degree Murder charges this month by a Putnam County Grand Jury.
“The defendant murdered our victim five months after his release from prison,” State Attorney R.J. Larizza said in a news release about the case. “He is a convicted sex offender. He is a violent career criminal. The brutal and merciless nature of this killing demands a death sentence.”
Beasley is due in court again in February.
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