GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) - The Greenville County Sheriff's Office reported that one man was convicted of murder after shooting a man in his car.

On May 2020, 19-year-old Nijel Sullivan was shot and killed in his car in the parking lot of Intown Suites on Mauldin Road.

The suspect was identified as 24-year-old Bralen Elijah Barksdale. Barksdale had fired a handgun 12 times into Sullivan's vehicle as he was trying to drive away, before fleeing the scene.

On September 12 2025, Barksdale was convicted of murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. Barksdale was sentenced to forty years in the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

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