After his connection in a deadly shooting event, a North Carolina man who won a $10 million lottery jackpot will spend the rest of his life in jail.
Michael Todd Hill, 54, won a large lottery victory in 2017, but on Friday, he was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in jail without the chance of parole in the deadly shooting of his former girlfriend, Keonna Graham, 23, in 2020.
Graham was reported missing before being discovered dead in a hotel room on July 20, 2020, with a gunshot wound to the back of the head.
According to the investigation, the hotel manager, Vee Patel, stated that Hill checked into the room alone before a cleaner discovered Graham’s corpse.
Tiffany Wilson, a friend of the deceased, expressed she was really adored and very lovely.
“I think it’s terrible,” Wilson continued, according to the story. “He just won the lotto, after all. I heard he recently married, and you go and murder a young girl? A lovely lady? I don’t get it.”
Hill, a former nuclear plant worker, was detained in July 2020 and finally acknowledged to murdering his partner. Hill won $10 million from an Ultimate Millions scratch-off ticket three years before the murder. After winning the reward, he handed $2,000 to the clerk who sold him the ticket.
