SPARTANBURG MAN RECEIVES LIFE PRISON SENTENCE FOR MURDER AND ASSAULT CONVICTIONS

A Spartanburg man received a life prison sentence and a consecutive 20-year sentence for a shooting that claimed the life of a local man and critically injured a second person.

Nathaniel Charles Teamer, 26, was found guilty of murder and assault and battery with intent to kill at the conclusion of a three-day jury trial. He will serve every day of Circuit Judge Derham Cole’s prison sentence. He is not eligible for parole.

Teamer murdered James Antonio Hunter, 30, and he shot David Michael Proctor, 22, of Spartanburg, multiple times on Feb. 2, 2006. The victims were shot in a car on Chester Street.

Teamer fled the crime scene and was later arrested by Spartanburg Public Safety Department investigators.

Principal Deputy Solicitor Barry Barnette and Assistant Solicitor Alex Stalvey relied on eyewitness testimony, DNA and ballistics evidence to connect Teamer to the violence.

Today’s prison sentence ends Teamer’s criminal career.

He received a separate 30-year prison sentence in September after he was found guilty of first-degree burglary, felony driving under the influence and failure to stop for police. His criminal history includes convictions for multiple assaults, drug and gun charges.

“Spartanburg is a better place with Nathaniel Charlie Teamer behind bars for the rest of his life,” Barnette said. “He was a one-man crime spree.”