ABINGDON, Va. — A South Carolina man who pleaded guilty to killing a Big Stone Gap police officer has been sentenced to spend a century in prison.

Michael Donivan White, 36, pleaded guilty last June to the 2021 murder of Officer Michael Chandler, as well as seven gun and drug charges for his role as the leader of a meth distribution conspiracy. With his pleas, White admitted to shooting and killing Chandler early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2021, when the officer came to conduct a welfare check at a known drug house.

In his plea agreement, White admitted firing his gun eight times, hitting the officer twice. It Chandler’s 29th birthday.

On Friday, White appeared in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, where he was sentenced to 100 years in prison. Because parole has been abolished in the federal system, White will have to serve at least 85 percent of his sentence.