Man to serve 16 years for stabbing at church on reservation
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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 in North Carolina.
Local news 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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While there, Hill stabbed one of the men with him, 25-year-old Tyler Gaddis of Whittier, to death in what court records say was "an unprovoked attack."