CONWAY, S.C. (AP) – A Nichols man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of murder in a murder-for-hire scheme.
Local media outlets report that 30-year-old Nehemiah James Evans entered the plea and was sentenced in Horry County Court on Monday.
Evans was the last of three people sentenced in a case stemming from the August, 2012 shooting deaths of 66-year-old Amos Hatfield of Loris and his 40-year-old son Thomas Hatfield.
Earlier, Amos Hatfield’s wife, 43-year-old Sandy Lee Locklear, and 24-year-old Odom Bryant, were convicted of murder and both sentenced to life in prison.
Prosecutors said that Locklear promised the two men $50,000 from a $1 million life insurance policy for shooting the Hatfields.
The victims were shot at the elder Hatfield’s home.
