After bringing a surprise end to his murder trial by pleading guilty to all charges, a Bluffton man was sentenced to life in prison for a premeditated 2023 shooting that led to his ex-girlfriend’s death. He confessed in the courtroom Wednesday to targeting the woman’s car as she drove her 6-year-old son to school.
John Patrick Shea, 29, received a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the murder of beloved Okatie mother Jillian Angner, 25. He was also given 5 years for a felony gun offense, 10 years for discharging a firearm into a vehicle and 30 years for the attempted murder of the victim’s son, Aiden.
Shea confessed Wednesday to the March 2, 2023, shooting that would later lead to Angner’s death. He was in the passenger seat of a friend’s pickup truck on a private drive when he sprayed Angner’s red Jeep with gunfire as she drove her son out of their remote neighborhood on Harrison Island Road…