{"id":1323870,"date":"2024-05-21T08:33:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T13:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1323870"},"modified":"2024-05-22T07:24:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T12:24:30","slug":"man-sentenced-to-20-years-for-2021-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1323870","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 20 years for 2021 murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1323871\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/Gilliam-184x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/Gilliam-184x200.png 184w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/Gilliam.png 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/>WHITE OAK &#8212; Brandon Gilliam, 42, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to the 2021 murder of Steve McDowell. According to our news partner KETK, Gilliam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sentence comes only weeks after Regina Massie, 40, also pleaded guilty in connection to McDowell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s murder. Case records revealed that Gilliam and Massie were hired by McDowell to fix his truck but then he discovered money was missing from the truck. Massie reportedly told investigators that Gilliam hit McDowell in the head with a foot-long pipe after he was confronted about the money missing from McDowell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s truck. Gilliam then reportedly tried to suffocate McDowell by covering his mouth and nose. Massie also quoted Gilliam as saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153McDowell should not have died over $35.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gilliam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sentence started on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHITE OAK &#8212; Brandon Gilliam, 42, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to the 2021 murder of Steve McDowell. According to our news partner KETK, Gilliam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sentence comes only weeks after Regina Massie, 40, also pleaded guilty in connection to McDowell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s murder. Case records revealed that Gilliam and Massie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1323870\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man sentenced to 20 years for 2021 murder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1323872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/Gilliam-184x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"Man sentenced to 20 years for 2021 murder","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 22:09:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/Gilliam-184x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"Man sentenced to 20 years for 2021 murder","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1323870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323873,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323870\/revisions\/1323873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1323872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}