Daytona Beach drug dealer sentenced to life in prison after woman died of overdose

A Daytona Beach drug dealer nicknamed “Red Eye” was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for murder in the sale of a fatal dose of drugs.

Arthur Harris III, 35, was found guilty of first-degree murder through the illegal distribution of narcotics and the sale of fentanyl and cocaine.

District Judge Karen Foxman sentenced Harris to life in prison, to be served consecutively with the sentences he is already serving in previous cases, which ran from April 7 to April 10.^th Office of the District Attorney.

The investigation began on December 13, 2022, with the death of 40-year-old Shavon Maria Kennedy from a drug overdose in Daytona Beach. Investigators found a message on her phone that she had purchased heroin/fentanyl and crack cocaine from a dealer named “Red Eye.”