Man convicted of 2014 Snellville motel killing
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A Georgia man has been convicted of killing another man over a rape that may not have happened.
Media outlets report 42-year-old Philip Pugh was convicted Tuesday of shooting 50-year-old Vincent Newsome in 2014 outside a motel near Snellville. Pugh was arrested two days later in Mississippi.
Weeks before the shooting, Pugh filed a police report claiming Newsome had raped Pugh's wife. The woman told police she and her husband were drugged one morning in a motel they were living in and that she later saw a cellphone video of Newsome raping her.
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The Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office says no evidence emerged to support the claim.
Pugh was found guilty but mentally ill. He was sentenced to life in prison.