Man Gets Life for Killing Woman Who Mistook His Car for Uber

Man Gets Life for Killing Woman Who Mistook His Car for Uber
Defendant Nathaniel Rowland sits with his attorney Alicia Goode during closing arguments in his trial, in Richland County Circuit Court in Columbia, S.C on July 27, 2021. Tracy Glantz/The State via AP, Pool
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COLUMBIA, S.C.—A South Carolina man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for the 2019 abduction and murder of a 21-year-old college student who mistook his car for her Uber ride.

The jury took a little more than an hour to find Nathaniel Rowland guilty of killing Samantha Josephson, a University of South Carolina student who disappeared from Columbia’s Five Points entertainment district in March 2019.