South Carolina man to serve 16 years for fatal stabbing at church

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A South Carolina man has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for stabbing a companion to death inside a church on the Cherokee Indian Reservation.

Local media outlets report Forest Dakota Hill of Easley, South Carolina, was sentenced Tuesday. He pleaded guilty in April to second-degree murder.

Court records and testimony showed Hill and two other people drove to the Smokemount Baptist Church in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in March 2015.

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