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No Bond For Suspect In Deadly Check Cashing Store Robbery

FORT LAUDERDALE (CBS4) – The suspect charged in a deadly Check Cashing Store robbery has been denied bond.

Stanley Beasley, 33, appeared at a bond hearing Sunday, nearly three weeks after the August 9th shooting that left a store clerk dead, and an innocent by-stander hospitalized with a bullet wound. The incident also left Beasley hospitalized after being shot by police.

According to Broward Sheriff's investigators, Beasley ambushed the Check Cashing Store clerk, Clairemathe Geffrard as she prepared to open the business for the day. It was about 9:30 a.m. when Beasley reportedly put a gun to her Geffrard's head as she unlocked the front door of the business located at 2927 W. Sunrise Blvd., near Fort Lauderdale.

Click here for Photo Gallery: Shooting & Standoff At Check Cashing Store

During the holdup, detectives said, he shot Geffrard in the head and then opened fire on deputies who confronted him as he tried to leave the store. Deputies returned fire and Beasley was wounded in the parking lot. Deputies reported finding a 9mm gun near Beasley, along with a backpack containing more than $3,300 cash in bank pouches. Beasley also told deputies, "I was by myself," and "I did it myself," according to the arrest affidavit.

No deputies were hurt in the gunfire.

Geffrard, of Sunrise, later died.

A third person, bystander Jorge Aguilar, 36, was also wounded. He was shot once in the chest while outside a tire store across the street from the crime scene. He remains in the hospital in good condition, his wife Flor said Monday to the Sun Sentinel.

Beasley has been charged with premeditated murder, armed robbery and armed kidnapping plus two counts of attempted murder on a Law Enforcement Officer, violating his probation and carrying a concealed firearm by a convicted felon.

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