Man gets life plus 20 years for execution-style slaying
ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Gaffney man has been sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years for the 2006 execution style killing of a man in Augusta, Ga.

A jury found 32-year-old Demetric Twitty guilty Friday in the murder of 25-year-old Mickel Ian Mosley of Gaffney, S.C.

Prosecutors say Twitty and two other men - 29-year-old Kelly Roberts of Gaffney, and 35-year-old Edward James Reeves of Augusta, Ga. - kidnapped Mosley in the trunk of a car before tying him up, shooting him in the head and dumping his body in the Savannah River.

Twitty had previously denied any involvement.

"I'm sorry about what happened to her son, but I didn't have anything to do with it," Twitty said during an August 2006 bond hearing. Twitty had claimed during that hearing he told police who killed Mosley, but maintained he never met Mosley himself.

The investigation crossed three state lines. Investigators believed Mosley was abducted in Cherokee County before he was taken to Georgia. Mosley's car, a white Lexus, was found in Rutherford, N.C., two days after his murder.

Mosley was a 2000 graduate of Gaffney High School and was attending University of South Carolina Upstate. He was living in Spartanburg at the time of his death, but formerly resided on Grubb Street in Gaffney.

Roberts and Reeves remain in jail awaiting trial. Both have pleaded not guilty.