Man sentenced to life in prison after winning $10 million in the lotto in North Carolina.

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May 31, 2022

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Later on, he admitted that in the year 2020, when he was working as a technician at a nuclear plant, he had fatally shot and killed his lover.

Despite having won $10 million in the lottery, a man from North Carolina will spend the rest of his life behind bars for his involvement in a shooting that resulted in the death of another person.

According to The News God reporting, lottery winner Michael Todd Hill, 54, was found guilty of first-degree murder on Friday and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend Keonna Graham, 23. Graham was killed in the shooting incident that occurred in 2020. In 2017, Hill was awarded a substantial sum from the lottery.

Michael Todd Hill is depicted in an image that was released by the Shallotte Police Department in the state of North Carolina. ((Source: Shallotte Police Department via the Associated Press))

Reporters stated that Graham had been reported missing before her body was discovered on July 20, 2020, inside a hotel room where she had been staying.

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The manager of the hotel, Vee Patel, stated to the investigators that Hill visited the room alone herself before the discovery of Graham’s death by a housekeeper.