DOB: 08/31/1971
Case Number: 2025 1158 CF
Intent to Seek the Death Penalty Filed in Brutal Putnam County Murder
PALATKA – State Attorney R.J. Larizza filed the notice of intent to seek the death penalty against defendant Lemar Beasley today. The Putnam County Grand Jury indicted him on First-Degree Murder earlier this month.
The defendant is accused of stabbing a woman more than 40 times outside of a Fruitland store on November 14, 2025. The victim died from her injuries at the hospital.
“The defendant murdered our victim five months after his release from prison,” State Attorney R.J. Larizza said 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.”
The case was investigated by the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant State Attorney Jason Lewis is the prosecutor assigned to the case.
For more information contact:
Haley Harrison | Public Information Officer | Office of State Attorney R.J. Larizza, Florida’s Seventh Judicial Circuit | SAOPIO@SAO7.org
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