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Miami-Dade man gets 8 years for fatal West Palm Beach shooting, body found on fire

Posted at 7:33 AM, Oct 01, 2019
and last updated 2019-10-01 07:35:59-04

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A third man has been sentenced to prison for a fatal shooting more than a decade ago.

The Palm Beach Post reports Ronald Anthony Charles, 39, of North Miami Beach was sentenced Friday to eight years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.

Authorities say Gregory Beasley's body was found full of bullets and set ablaze in a West Palm Beach alleyway in June 2006. He had been at a North Miami Beach strip club the night before. Investigators used cellphone data to place Charles, Radel Prudent and Wood Jean-Charles with Beasley the night he was killed.

Prudent and Jean-Charles were arrested in 2012; Charles was extradited from the Bahamas last year.

Jean-Charles received four years for being an accessory to the murder. Prudent received 13 years for being an accessory and to evidence tampering.