Powerful South Carolina Lawyer Shot on Backroad Three Months After Wife and Son Killed

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A lawyer from a prominent legal family in Hampton, South Carolina was shot in the head Saturday, mere months after his wife and son were shot and killed at their sprawling estate.

A lawyer from a prominent legal family in South Carolina was shot in the head Saturday, mere months after hisThe State

that his client had been driving on a remote road to Charleston to when his car malfunctioned. He stopped and later was shot in the head, though the circumstances of the attack and the extent of his injuries are not yet known. He was rushed to a nearby hospital. Police have not named a suspect. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division confirmed to The Daily Beast it is investigating a shooting in Hampton County and was called in to assist the Hampton County Sheriff’s Office in its investigation around 1:30 p.m.Murdaugh’s 52-year-old wife Maggie and 22-year-old Paul were found with fatal gunshot wounds at the family’s 1,700-acre hunting estate in Colleton County on June 7, the mother apparently shot with a rifle and the son shot in the head with a shotgun.

on a boat in 2019. Authorities said Paul was intoxicated when he drove the boat into a bridge piling near Parris Island after an oyster roast. He had pleaded not guilty. Her body was not found for a week. Beach’s mother filed a wrongful death suit against the Murdaughs.

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