Oconee General Sessions today

In Oconee General Sessions Court today, a trial date was set in the State’s case against Shane Adam Burdette, a Westminster man charged with the murder of James Evan Tyner. The 21-year old Tyner was found dead at Blackjack Road and Mount Pleasant Road of a gun shot wound to the neck. In another case, Judge Alex Macaulay sentenced Millard Strickland to three years in prison, after Strickland pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a fellow Oconee Detention Center inmate.