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Plea staved off death sentence in grisly 2015 hotel death
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Harmon Lavender, victim of the January 2015 slaying at SunSuites Hotel in Gainesville.
Editor’s note: This story includes graphic imagery. More than a week after the Jan. 7, 2015, death of Harmon Lavender, his roommate Jose Antonio Garcia-Flores recalled a fight before he “blacked out.” “I guess I just lost my mind,” Garcia-Flores told investigators.