A South Carolina man who pleaded guilty to the murder of a man last year inside the historic Smokemont Baptist Church in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison.
During a hearing on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger ordered 23-year-old Forrest Dakota Hill, of Easley, S.C., to serve 200 months in prison without the possibility of parole, followed by five years of supervised release, for the 2015 murder of Tyler Britton Gaddis, 25, of Wittier, N.C. According to court records, Hill stabbed Gaddis at least 16 times in the chest, back, neck and elsewhere. The victim’s cause of death was listed as “internal hemorrhage due to multiple stab wounds.”
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