MIAMI (Gray News) – A Florida man found guilty in the killing of a young girl nearly three decades ago has been given a life sentence.
After more than three hours of deliberations, jurors recommended Harrel Braddy, 76, be sentenced to life in prison for the 1998 killing of 5-year-old Quantisha Maycock, WTVJ reports.
Authorities said Braddy had dropped off the 5-year-old in the Everglades to be eaten alive by alligators after kidnapping her and her mother, Shandelle Maycock.
Prosecutors in the case said Braddy attacked Shandelle Maycock after she rejected his advances and that he left her dead in a deserted area near the Broward-Palm Beach County line, the Miami Herald reports…