A Fulton County jury handed an Atlanta man guilty verdicts in connection to a 2013 shooting death in Union City.
According to Fulton County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Yvette Jones, 33-year-old Otis Hill was found guilty late Monday on charges of murder, felony murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated battery and weapons offenses in connection to the death of 30-year-old Christina Wellington and the attempted murder of Marshall Wellington, then 54.
Authorities say Hill on Aug. 22, 2013, confronted the Wellingtons at a DeKalb County motel where the couple was living in order to collect a $300 debt from Christina Wellington. The couple said they did not have the money but would attempt to collect it by panhandling. The two went with Hill and his driver around the metro Atlanta over the course of a few hours to attempt to collect the money.
Hill told his driver, Aviance Chabliss Marshall, to detour down undeveloped McClure Road in Union City. It was there that he told the Wellingtons to get out of the vehicle. After they did, he got out with a gun.
Hill shot Marshall Wellington in the back and leg, while Christina Wellington was shot in the back. After she fell to the ground, Hill shot her twice more in the back and then in the head, fatally wounding her. Hill then went back to the vehicle and reloaded, returning to shoot Marshall Wellington once again, this time in the head.
Maintenance workers found the man and his deceased wife the next morning. Marshall Wellington survived the shooting, but the shot caused him to eventually lose an eye.
Hill was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville to three consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole, plus 55 years in prison.
Marshall also faced charges in connection to the shootings. Initially charged with murder and aggravated assault upon her arrest in August of 2013, she pleaded guilty in August to a false imprisonment charge, Jones said.
Marshall was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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