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Casteil "Slim" Franlink Hamlett, 38, charged with 2016 murder near Saltair.

Hamlett allegedly involved in plot against Chandler Michael Cooper who was fatally shot.

DNA evidence and witness statements link Hamlett to the crime, charges state.

MAGNA — A man accused of driving a 22-year-old man out to a remote area near Saltair in 2016 and fatally shooting him has been charged.

Casteil "Slim" Franlink Hamlett, 38, was arrested on Thursday in connection with the nearly decade-old homicide and on Monday was charged in 3rd District Court with murder and discharge of a firearm, first-degree felonies, and obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony.

The tangled web of associations and betrayals came to a head on Feb. 11, 2016, when the body of Chandler Michael Cooper ,

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