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A North Carolina man who won a $ 10 million lottery prize will spend the rest of his life in prison after being involved in a fatal shooting incident.
Michael Todd Hill, 54, won a significant lottery prize in 2017, but on Friday he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 2020 fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend Kiona Graham , 23, WSPA reported.
Graham was initially reported missing before being found dead in a hotel room with a gunshot wound to the back of the head on July 20, 2020, WECT reported.
This photo, provided by Shallot Police Department in North Carolina, shows Michael Todd Hill. (Shallot Police Department via AP)
Your hotel manager, Patel, said Hill settled into the room alone before a housekeeper found Graham’s body, according to the report.
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“She was very loved and very beautiful,” said Tiffany Wilson, a friend of the deceased.
“I think it’s awful,” Wilson added, according to the report. “I mean, he just won the lottery. I heard he just got married and you’re going to kill a young girl? A beautiful girl? I don’t understand.”
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Hill, a former nuclear power plant worker, was arrested in July 2020 and eventually admitted to killing his girlfriend, according to the WSPA.
The winning numbers in a previous draw of Mega-Millions. (iStock)
Three years before the assassination, Hill earned $ 10 million from a ticket to clear the Ultimate Millions. After winning the prize, he gave $ 2,000 to the box office, which sold him the ticket, WECT reported.
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