A man arrested in connection with the discovery of a body found inside a barrel in Malibu has been charged with murder.
A man arrested in connection with the discovery of a body found inside a 55-gallon drum on a Malibu beach has been charged with murder., 37, was one of two men arrested Oct. 3, about three months after the barrel was found at Malibu Lagoon State Beach with the body of 32-year-old Javonnta Marshann Murphy inside. A second man was charged with accessory after the fact.
The 55-gallon drum was found by a lifeguard who reported the discovery to the sheriff's department. Deputies pulled the barrel ashore and found the body inside. Sheriff's homicide investigators determined that Murphy was shot, killed and stuffed inside the barrel. He died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to records from the county medical examiner's office.Simmons is also charged with three counts of criminal threats involving separate victims on July 27 and Sept. 2, along with one count of attempted robbery Sept. 2 in El Monte.
Simmons was arrested Oct. 3 by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and has remained behind bars since then in lieu of more than $3.2 million bail, according to county jail records.Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, COVID, cost of living and more. Here's your go-to source for today's LA news.A second defendant, Dennis Eugene Vance, 41, is charged with a felony count of being an accessory after the fact.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department noted in a statement that the motive for the killing remains unknown, but that the suspects knew the victim.
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