Career criminal stabs woman more than 40 times outside Dollar General, now prosecutors seek death penalty

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a career criminal who stabbed a woman more than 40 times in an unprovoked attack in a Dollar General parking lot.

54-year-old Lemar Beasley stabbed Cheyenne Kastens, 36, in the parking lot of a Fruitland Park, Florida, Dollar General last month.

According to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, Beasley ambushed Kastens and repeatedly stabbed her before fleeing to a nearby camper.

Beasley and Kastens did not know each other.

A grand jury indicted Beasley for capital murder earlier this month.

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State Attorney R.J. Larizza is seeking the death penalty against Beasley.

“The defendant murdered our victim five months after his release from prison,” State Attorney R.J. Larizza said. “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 a career criminal and a convicted sex offender who was released from prison in July. He has a history of violent attacks against women going back to the early 90s.

News4Jax reported:

Investigators with the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office arrested Beasley after they said he had killed 36-year-old Cheyenne Kastens in a random attack that resulted in her being stabbed more than 40 times.

“We have some theories on his motives, but we’re not sure what his intent was,” Capt. Chris Stallings said.

Beasley, who is also a convicted sex offender, had been released from prison just months before the murder for violating the terms of the state sex offender registry.

Back in 1999, he was sent to prison for 15 years after he was convicted of rape and false imprisonment. According to the detectives in that case, the woman was beaten and choked before she was sexually assaulted.

In 1991, Beasley was sent to prison after he was convicted of attempted murder and armed burglary, and then in February 2021, Stalling said detectives were looking at Beasley as a primary person of interest in the death of 20-year-old Nyeisha Nelson.

Her remains were discovered in a shallow grave along a road just outside of Crescent City, days after she was reported missing.

This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com.