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NAPLES - A man covered in blood walked into a Wal-Mart Friday and bought garbage bags, raising suspicions that led authorities to charge him with murder.
Sheddrick Deon Bentley, 26, faces a second-degree murder charge in the slaying of 18-year-old Cory Brightman, whose stabbed body was found in a garbage bin. Wal-Mart workers called deputies after a blood-soaked man came in the store and bought some clothes, bandages and trash bags about 4 a.m. He paid with a $100 bill that also appeared to be bloodstained and drove off in a pickup.
When deputies found Bentley, he said Brightman attacked him with a knife near a trash bin and he fought back in self defense. But cuts on Bentley's hands didn't appear to be defense injuries, authorities said.
Inside the trash bin was a pair of bloody sneakers that matched footprints found at Wal-Mart and in front of the house of a witness, who said she saw Bentley and Brightman fighting, officials said.
Detectives also found a white Dodge pickup with blood on it.