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Man who won $10 million lottery prize sentenced to life in prison

Michael Todd Hill was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced Friday in the death of his girlfriend.
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BOLIVIA, N.C. — A North Carolina man who won a $10 million lottery prize in 2017 has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 2020 fatal shooting of his girlfriend. 

The News & Observer reports that 54-year-old Michael Todd Hill was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced Friday in the killing of 23-year-old Keonna Graham. Graham was reported missing on July 20, 2020. 

She was later found dead in a hotel with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Prosecutors said Hill confessed to killing Graham.

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