Man who shot at cops while barricaded in hotel goes to prison, SC official says

A South Carolina man who barricaded himself inside a West Columbia hotel before opening fire on law enforcement officers is going to prison, according to the 11th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.

On March 27, following a 2-week trial, 36-year-old Charleston resident Jonathan Russell Saylor was convicted by a Lexington County jury on two counts of attempted murder, shooting into a building while occupied, possession of a machine gun and possession of methamphetamine, the solicitor’s office said in a news release.

Judge Shawn Graham sentenced Saylor to 25 years in a South Carolina Department of Corrections prison, according to the release…

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