McCORMICK, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - A South Carolina inmate has been sentenced for throwing fecal matter at a guard at McCormick State Prison.

Donald Harper Jr., a 35-year-old man from Richland County, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to throwing bodily fluids on a correctional officer.

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Judge David P. Caraker Jr. sentenced Harper to an additional 15 years in prison, the maximum sentence.

In 2015, Harper shot and killed a Benedict College instructor in Columbia. For that crime, he was sentenced to 24 years in prison.

On the evening of Jan. 11, 2025, a correctional officer was deliv

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