Jermaine Long sentenced to 45 years for knife attack on teenager at Daytona Beach

A man who randomly attacked a 14-year-old boy at the Daytona Beach Boardwalk during Daytona 500 weekend will spend 45 years in prison.Jermaine Long pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery as part of an agreement in the attack on Sullivan Clarke, who was visiting Daytona Beach with his family.Clarke still has a scar on his neck from the Feb. 14 attack.“I was sitting there on the phone like that, and he just,” Clark said while making a slashing motion across his throat.Family describes trauma from attackDuring Thursday’s court proceedings, Clarke’s mother, Lori Clarke, described the trauma the attack caused her family.Her youngest son, who was 11, witnessed the assault.“My youngest son, who is just 11, had to witness his brother’s neck severed as Sullivan clenched his neck, asking us if he was going to bleed out, asking us if he was going to die,” she said.Investigators said Long walked past Sullivan and slashed his throat without warning.Doctors t