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Wed Oct 25, 2017, 01:29 PM Oct 2017

Words fail. Central Florida horror night.

Police find body in Orlando man's backyard while arresting him in unrelated homicide

An Orlando man accused of killing his neighbor may be charged in another homicide after police found a decomposing body buried on his property.

Jimmy Gary Merritt, 37, was arrested Tuesday after Orlando Police said an investigation revealed he cashed a check belonging to a Friday homicide victim and tried unsuccessfully to cash two more, according to an arrest report.

The victim — Benny Hallmark — was found dead of a gunshot wound, lying on a reclining chair in his home in the 3100 block of Lauressa Lane near Catalina Elementary School and Memorial Middle School about 11:15 a.m. Friday, according to the Orlando Police Department.

Hallmark and Merritt were neighbors, living only about 200 feet apart on Lauressa Lane. Police did not say whether the two knew each other.


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-homicide-arrest-lauressa-lane-20171025-story.html

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