LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) — A man recently elected to a school board in southern Coloradospent more than a decade in prison in North Carolina for murder.
Thomas Seaba first discussed the conviction this week with KKTV and said he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for shooting and killing a fellow Marine in 1997. According to North Carolina prison records, Seaba was released in March 2010 after serving nearly 13 years in prison. He was on parole until December 2010.
Col. Donnie Worlow of the Onslow Country Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina told the station that investigators determined the victim was shot once in the back of the head, then Seaba returned and shot him four more times.
Seaba says he made “a set of horrific mistakes.”