AMERICUS - A Buena Vista man has been charged with murder in the strangulation death of his 25-year-old girlfriend during a domestic dispute. <br>
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Benji Cortez Sanders, 21, called emergency officials at 3:19 a.m. Tuesday from the home of Sheila Nichelle Freeman, saying that he and Freeman had been fighting. <br>
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Sanders told officials that she was turning blue and not breathing, Police Chief Michael Yates said. <br>
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Police found Freeman's body on a bed in a rear bedroom. Efforts to revive her were unsuccessful. <br>
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Sumter County Coroner Greg Hancock said an autopsy at the state crime lab showed she had been strangled. <br>
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Sanders was held without bond.
