'Refuse of human garbage': Man stabs woman to death at Dollar General in random attack, cops say

Authorities successful Florida arrested a 54-year-old antheral who stabbed a pistillate to decease successful the parking batch of a Dollar General for nary evident reason.

Lemar Beasley stands accused of first-degree murder successful the decease of 36-year-old Cheyenne Kastens, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said successful a Facebook post.

Deputies accidental some Beasley and Kastens were astatine the Dollar General successful Crescent City connected Friday day but did not look to person an enactment wrong the store, nor did they cognize each different beforehand. Kastens was adjacent her car erstwhile Beasley allegedly attacked her with a weapon and stabbed her repeatedly.

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Cops arrived to the country and performed CPR until paramedics rushed her to the hospital, wherever doctors pronounced her dead. Beasley fled aft the attack, mounting disconnected a 24-hour manhunt, deputies said. Detectives identified Beasley arsenic the fishy and arrested him successful the camper wherever helium was surviving connected a spot connected Huntington Shortcut Road, astir 7 miles distant from the Dollar General.

A weapon that was perchance utilized successful the onslaught was recovered. Beasley has an "extensive transgression history" dating backmost immoderate 3 decades. He besides is simply a registered enactment offender and was conscionable released from situation successful July aft serving for failing to registry arsenic a enactment offender.

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"Our prayers and deepest condolences are to the household and friends of Cheyenne Kastens," Sheriff H.D. "Gator" DeLoach said successful a statement. "While I cannot instrumentality distant their symptom and sorrow portion grieving the nonaccomplishment of a loved one, my committedness to her household and our southbound Putnam assemblage is that we volition bash everything to marque definite this garbage of quality garbage spends the remainder of his beingness confined successful a compartment distant from nine and dies successful prison. There is nary crushed for idiosyncratic to suffer their beingness for conscionable going astir their day."

Beasley is successful the Putnam County Jail without bond.