FRUITLAND, Fla. (WKRC) – A man was charged with murder after he allegedly stabbed a woman he did not know to death in a Dollar General parking lot for no apparent reason.
According to a release from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, 36-year-old Cheyenne Kastens was shopping at a Dollar General on the afternoon of November 14 at the same time as 54-year-old Lemar Beasley.
Police said the pair did not have any interactions inside of the Dollar General, nor did they have any known prior history or association.
While Kastens was in the parking lot near her vehicle, Beasley allegedly attacked her with a knife, fatally stabbing her. Beasley fled the scene and was found roughly 24 hours later in a camper he was residing in.
Beasley was arrested and charged with first-degree premeditated murder, police said. The release noted that Beasley had an “extensive criminal history dating back to 1991” and was a registered sex offender.
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“Our prayers and deepest condolences are to the family and friends of Cheyenne Kastens,” said Sheriff H.D. “Gator” DeLoach. “While I cannot take away their pain and sorrow while grieving the loss of a loved one, my promise to her family and our south Putnam community is that we will do everything to make sure this refuse of human garbage spends the rest of his life confined in a cell. away from society and dies in prison. There is no reason for someone to lose their life for just going about their day.”