Woman sentenced after monitoring down her estranged husband and fatally capturing his feminine companion

A South Carolina lady who tracked down her estranged husband and fatally shot his companion after discovering them collectively in a automotive has been sentenced to 35 years in jail.

Michelle Gladys Bingley, 43, was convicted of homicide and different prices Thursday within the April 28, 2025 homicide of Tineseing Lachell Johns.

The capturing occurred throughout a late-night confrontation in Walterboro, in keeping with the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.

Bingley turned herself in a number of days after the capturing.

During an interview with investigators, she mentioned she believed her husband had been untrue and used his Google account to find him at his mom’s dwelling, prosecutors mentioned.

She discovered him in Johns’ automotive and advised investigators she “lost her mind” when he refused to get out.

Bingley mentioned she fired into the automobile however didn’t intend to harm both particular person.

“I didn’t mean to do anything,” she advised investigators. “I just did it to scare him.”

Later within the interview, Bingley acknowledged, “I murdered somebody,” in keeping with prosecutors.

She additionally mentioned she discarded the pink revolver used within the capturing earlier than abandoning her automobile. The gun was not recovered.

Walterboro cops have been known as at about 11:30 p.m. for a report of an unresponsive lady.

They discovered Johns outdoors her automobile with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced useless, and an post-mortem decided she died from the gunshot wound.

During Bingley’s three-day trial on the Colleton County Courthouse, a police sergeant testified that investigators recovered a .38-caliber bullet from Johns’ automobile.

A bullet eliminated throughout the post-mortem was in keeping with a revolver, prosecutors mentioned.

The courtroom handed down the sentence on October 29, 2026.

In addition to homicide, Bingley was convicted of home violence of a excessive and aggravated nature, possession of a weapon throughout the fee of a violent crime and discharging a firearm into an occupied automobile.