A Bluffton man convicted of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend as she drove her 6-year-old son to school is now asking for a reduced prison sentence — a development the victim’s family said has shattered their sense of closure.
John Patrick Shea, 30, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole last June for the 2023 shooting that targeted the car of 25-year-old Jillian Angner in her Okatie neighborhood.
From a pickup truck parked in a private driveway near Angner’s home, Shea sprayed his ex-girlfriend’s car with gunfire as she drove past the morning of March 2, 2023, with her son in the backseat. The 6-year-old was uninjured — but gunshot wounds to Angner’s neck left her fighting for her life in a hospital. She never regained consciousness and was taken off life support about five months after the shooting…