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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 his involvement in a deadly shooting.
Michael Todd Hill, 54, won the major lottery prize in 2017, but on Friday was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole in his ex-girlfriend’s 2020 fatal shooting. , Keonna Graham, 23. , reported WSPA.
On July 20, 2020, Graham was reported missing before being found dead in a hotel room with a gunshot wound to the back of his head, WECT reported.
This photo provided by the Shallotte Police Department in North Carolina shows Michael Todd Hill. ((Shallotte Police Department via AP))
Hotel manager Vee Patel said Hill entered the room alone before a housewife found Graham’s body, according to the report.
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“She was very much loved and she is very beautiful,” Tiffany Wilson, a friend of the deceased, told WECT.
“I think it’s horrible,” Wilson added, according to the report. “I mean, you just won the lottery. I heard you just got married and you’re going to kill a young girl? A pretty girl? I don’t get it.”
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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 Mega-Millions draw. (iStock)
Three years before the murder, Hill earned $ 10 million from an Ultimate Millions scraping ticket. After winning the prize, he gave $ 2,000 to the cashier who sold him the ticket, WECT reported.