Wife Found Husband in Car with Another Woman and Fatally Shot Her with Pink Gun, Claimed She Did It ‘to Scare Him’
Michelle Gladys BingleyCredit: 14th Circuit Solicitor
A South Carolina woman was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the April 2025 murder of her husband’s companion
Michelle Gladys Bingley admitted to killing the woman after discovering her husband and the woman in a car together late at night
Bingley told police she “didn’t mean to do anything” by firing a gun into the car and said she only meant to “scare” her husband
A South Carolina woman has been sentenced for the 2025 shooting death of her husband’s companion after discovering them in a car together late at night.
Michelle Gladys Bingley will spend 35 years in prison as part of her sentencing for the April 28, 2025 murder of Tineseing Lachell Johns, according to a news release last week from the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office. The sentence was handed down last Thursday, Oct. 29.
Bingley turned herself in days after shooting and killing Johns, according to officials, telling local police “she believed her husband had been unfaithful and used his Google account to locate him at his mother’s home.”
The convicted killer said she then discovered her husband in a car with Johns outside the home and “lost her mind” when she told him to get out of the car and he refused, according to the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office. Bingley then told police she fired into the car but claimed she didn’t mean to harm either her husband or his companion.
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“I didn’t mean to do anything,” Bingley told police, according to the news release. “I just did it to scare him.” Investigators said Bingley admitted to killing Johns later during the same interview with police. Bingley also said she got rid of the pink revolver she used in Johns’ killing before abandoning her own vehicle, according to authorities.
In addition to murder, Bingley was also 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,” Assistant Solicitor Tameaka A. Legette of the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office said in a statement on Thursday, adding that “this case underscores the importance of early intervention and accountability.”
The State reported that Bingley was found guilty after a three-day trial and will serve her sentence at the Camille Graham Correctional Institution, a women’s-only, medium-security prison in Columbia, South Carolina.
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