By KRISTEN NASTASIA | Reporter
Published: January 6, 2010
Updated: January 6, 2010
46-year-old Robert Irby admitted Wednesday in court to shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend when he says he “lost it” back in May of 2008.
The shooting happened in victim Sheila Grayson’s driveway on Bellamy Close in the Mount Vernon Estates neighborhood of Greer.
According to investigators, Grayson was leaving for work when Irby says he shot her in her car over a restraining order she was trying to take out against him. Her car then smashed into a neighbor’s house as she slumped over the steering wheel.
In court, Irby broke down in tears and apologized to the Grayson family. “I would like to apologize to the Grayson family for taking their loved one away from them,“ Irby said.
Her family says she was fearful for her life because of him and they say she had a feeling her life would end the way it did.
“She lived her life in fear the last couple of years she was with him. She actually lived in fear knowing that this day would come one day but she never wanted us to know that because she didn’t want us to be scared,“ Sheila Grayson’s niece, LaKeisha Grayson, said.
Irby was sentenced to 40 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
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