Within the past month, the courts in Jacksonville, Florida, have made many decisions regarding various aspects of the shooting death and subsequent cover-up of a young lady whose body was found discarded in a lake on July 12. The most noteworthy development is a fresh charge of murder being brought against one of the accused.
Kamaree Phillip Singleton, age 21, was charged with second-degree murder as well as two charges of changing, destroying, concealing, or deleting evidence in the death of Beverly Ann Febres on May 9. This comes after the court found on April 26 that he was competent in a different case and declared him to be an adult.
The corpse of the 23-year-old was discovered in Marco Lake, which is located off Sorrento Road. According to the court documents, she sustained two gunshot wounds to the head, and her vehicle was discovered abandoned in a barren lot not too far from the apartment where her lover lived. Her blood had been splattered all over the passenger seat.
A couple of weeks later, her boyfriend, Dedric Jaquan Rashan Wesley, age 26, was apprehended and charged with second-degree murder, tampering with evidence, supplying false information to police, and accessory after the fact. These charges were brought against him after he was accused of being an accessory to the crime.
However, Wesley was exonerated of both the count of accessory after the fact and the murder charge as a result of a motion to dismiss the murder allegation due to new revelations supplied by co-defendant Corey Devin Ellis and by co-defendant Singleton.
On December 5, judgment was withheld on the two other offenses against him, and he was sentenced to five years of probation instead. According to the court records, he was also credited with 130 days of time served.
While everything was going on, on January 31st, Ellis entered a guilty plea to two charges of tampering with evidence. On May 12, the court imposed a term of 15 months in jail, followed by two years of probation for the 27-year-old defendant. According to the records from the court, he was caught in August but was given credit for having already served 273 days of his sentence.
The next hearing regarding Singleton’s case is set to take place on May 24. Even though he was suspected of shooting Febres during an altercation and of enlisting Ellis’ assistance in dumping her corpse and vehicle, he could not be formally charged with murder until it was determined whether or not he was competent.
According to the court documents, this was in connection with his arrest on July 17 for drug and alcohol offenses. At the time of his arrest, he had been declared mentally incompetent and was required to check into a forensic treatment facility.
