SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – A man was charged with murder months after a Sanford man’s body was found in a burning shed.
Deputies announced the arrest of Lewis Boone, 24, more than a month after they discovered the victim’s body. According to jail records, Boone was first arrested on May 3 on unrelated charges.
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The investigation began on April 21, when deputies were called to a home in the 1700 block of Roseberry Lane, records show. Deputies said a shed at the home was torched.
Once the fire was out, deputies learned a body was inside the shed, later identified as 21-year-old Jaylen McIntyre.
Deputies did not say how they determined Boone was a suspect in McIntyre’s death.
He has since been charged with premeditated first-degree murder. He also faces charges of carrying an unlicensed concealed weapon, destruction of evidence and 54 counts of possession of a weapon or ammunition by a convicted felon.