$10M North Carolina Lottery Winner Sentenced to Life for Murder of Girlfriend
Posted on: June 6, 2022, 04:09h.
Last updated on: June 6, 2022, 05:10h.
A North Carolina lottery winner has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder of his girlfriend.

In August 2017, Michael Todd Hill, 54, a nuclear power plant worker from Leland, Brunswick County, won $10 million on an Ultimate Millions scratch off ticket at a Maco Depot gas station.
He described the moment as “life-changing” as he posed for photographers with an outsized check, his wife by his side.
In July 2020, in another life-changing moment, he shot his girlfriend, 23-year-old Keonna Graham of Navassa, in the back of the head while she slept in a room at the SureStay Hotel in Shallotte, Brunswick County.
Jealousy Motive
Prosecutors said Hill was jealous because Graham, 31 years his junior, had been texting other men. The pair had been in a relationship for around 18 months, according to court documents.
Graham’s body was discovered by a maid at around 12:30pm on July 20. This was around the same time her mother filed a missing persons report after she failed to show up for work as a corrections officer at Pender Correctional Institution.
According to the autopsy report, Graham was clenching a penny in her left hand, and detectives found a ziplock bag containing a white powdered substance close by.
Prosecutors said hotel surveillance footage showed that Hill was the only individual who had been in the hotel room with the victim.
He was arrested the next day and subsequently confessed to the killing. On May 27 this year, a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder.
‘Nice Guy’
In 2020, local NBC affiliate WECT spoke to Tiffany Wilson, a friend of the victim’s family.
“I think it’s horrible,” she said. “I mean, he just won the lottery. I heard he just got married, and you go and kill a young girl? A beautiful girl? I don’t understand.”
All that money and you are seducing a young girl to go into a hotel?” said Wilson. “I don’t know what the situation is, but you had no business being in a hotel with her.”
WECT also spoke with employees at the garage where Hill bought his lottery ticket. They said he returned after his win to gift the girl who sold him the ticket $2,000 to thank her.
They described him as a regular customer, a “nice guy.” They never would have thought he could do something like this.
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Money the Root of All evil. SMH
A FOOL with $$$$$$ SHALL SOON DEPART!!!!!!!!
There are no winners. We must learn how to navigate the forks in the road.
Stupid man
He's a predator. And he is getting exactly what he deserved. And for her. She was not at all innocent. She was sleeping with a married man. And knew it. For the wages of sin is death. So I don't feel sorry for either one of them. Now the wife will be living on all those proceeds. And he wouldn't get one visit or one dime from me. God, has His ways of dealing with karma. He needs to " REPENT " WORD SAY " NUMBERS 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sins will find you out.
He shouldn't have killed her, he should have just left her alone if he wasn't man enough to except her being with another because he is married himself, I think it was because she was so young & beautiful & he couldn't take it. P--k azz
So a 10m player gets played. And he has to kill her. Oh and married to boot!