- October 23, 2024
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by: Messod Bendayan, Public Affairs Office Manager
A 27-year-old man indicted by a Flagler County grand jury for murder for selling the deadly dose of poison resulting in the overdose death of another man has been convicted of manslaughter.
Following a two-day jury trial in connection with the 2019 fentanyl overdose death of Timothy Davidson, Jevante Hamilton’s guilty verdict was delivered on Thursday (Aug. 26, 2022) by the jury in roughly three hours.
“As long as I’m Sheriff, we will investigate every overdose death as a homicide and we will do everything in our power to make sure drug dealers like Hamilton pay for peddling poison,” said Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly. “I thank the jury for their service and the State Attorney’s Office for helping us deliver justice to the family in this case.”
Hamilton has remained in the custody of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) since he was arrested on the day of Davidson’s death. He still faces several other drug-related charges in Flagler and Volusia counties.
Hamilton will be sentenced at a later date. Florida law requires him to serve a 15-year minimum prison sentence.
