A Midlands man will spend the next two decades behind bars after being convicted of setting a woman on fire, last year. The 5th Circuit Solicitors Office says, 43 year old Kietrick Maurice Stevenson has been found guilty on a charge of aggravated assault.
Court records say the charge stems from incident in March of 2022, in which Stevenson left his aunt's home to find the victim. After locating the woman, he approached her dousing with her gasoline he had in a pitcher. He then threw a match on her causing the woman to be engulfed in flames.
The victim was airlifted to the Augusta Burn Center where she spent six weeks in the ICU. Investigators say, Stevenson confessed to trying to scare the victim. He has a prior conviction of Voluntary Manslaughter.
He's been sentenced to 20 years in the South Carolina Department Of Corrections. "
