Inset: Michelle Gladys Bingley (14th Circuit Solicitor”s Office​). Background: Grace Street in Walterboro, South Carolina (Google Maps).
A South Carolina woman was sentenced to decades in prison for shooting her husband’s female companion to death in a car with a pink gun after she tracked him down using his Google account.
Michelle Gladys Bingley, 43, was convicted Thursday of murder and sentenced to 35 years behind bars for the death of Tineseing Lachell Johns, the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office said.
Police in Walterboro, which is about 45 miles west of Charleston, responded around 11:30 p.m. April 28, 2025, to a report of an unresponsive person on Grace Street. Officers found Johns with a gunshot wound under her arm. Paramedics rushed her to the hospital, where she died.
Bingley turned herself in to police a few days after the shooting. She told detectives she learned her husband was cheating. She used his Google account to track him to his mother’s house.
When she arrived, she found him in a car with Johns. Bingley told investigators she “lost her mind” when her husband refused to get out of the car. She fired into the car with her pink gun, hitting the victim.
Bingley drove away and ditched the gun, which was never recovered.
“I didn’t mean to do anything,” Bingley told investigators. “I just did it to scare him.”
But Bingley later admitted, “I killed somebody.”
The state called 12 witnesses during the three-day trial.
Bingley also was convicted of domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature, possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle.
“Domestic violence has devastating and far‑reaching consequences for families and communities,” said Assistant Solicitor Tameaka A. Legette of the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office, who prosecuted the case. “As we recognize October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, this case underscores the importance of early intervention and accountability. Our office remains committed to seeking justice for victims and ensuring that violent acts such as these are thoroughly prosecuted.”
