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A person has been jailed for all times for brutally hacking a driver to demise with a machete after he stopped to supply him a experience in the course of the night time.

Rodney Watson, 66, of St. Marys, Georgia, was driving to a retailer in Burton, South Carolina, in July 2020 when he noticed Michael Eugene Goode, 50, stranded by the highway, the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Workplace mentioned in a information launch.

In response to authorities, Watson’s niece and a girl who was driving within the entrance passenger seat acknowledged Goode, also called “Slick”, and so the 66-year-old pulled over and gave him a experience.

A short while later within the early hours of Wednesday July 8, Beaufort County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies had been referred to as to stories of a battle within the yard of a cellular house on Horton Drive, Burton.

After they arrived, they discovered the 50-year-old attacking the lady within the entrance seat, authorities mentioned.

As Watson tried to cease the assault, Goode stabbed him six occasions with a 10-inch serrated machete. One of many blows severed an artery on Watson’s left arm, killing him, in accordance with a forensic pathologist.

Goode fled the scene however was tracked right down to a close-by house and arrested simply hours later.

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He claimed his innocence however his trial heard how DNA proof positioned him on the scene with the machete.

Now, greater than 4 years on, following a three-day jury trial at Beaufort County Courthouse, Goode was convicted of Watson’s homicide.

He was sentenced to life in jail with out parole for homicide in addition to 5 years for possession of a lethal weapon throughout the fee of a violent crime.

Previous to Watson’s killing, Goode had a string of different convictions together with possession with intent to distribute crack, assault, battery, felony home violence, resisting arrest, and giving false info.