Man Gets 15 Years in Death of Ladson Grandmother

Samuel McCauley will spend the next 14 years of his life in jail for a 2011 drunk driving incident that killed a Ladson grandmother, the Post and Courier reported.

He was sentenced Friday. He received a sentence of 15 years,with credit for time served.

McCauley pleaded guilty in 2012, and at the time of the incident had even asked a police officer to kill him. The wreck occurred on Interstate 26 at the crosstown. 

"No one deserves to die the way I killed Eleanor Caperton," McCauley said last year. "I wish it was me that had died that night, but I can’t change what happened. ... I am and will forever be sorry."

Caperton lived in Ladson and worked in Hanahan.

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