WASHINGTON: Lawyers of the leading South Carolina whose family has roots in regional law enforcement have been shot in the head, only months after his son and wife were killed mysteriously, the authorities said.
Lawyer, Alex Murdaugh, changed a tire on the side of the rural road when someone in a truck drove past, then returned and fired it, his lawyer, Jim Griffin, told the New York Times.
Murdaugh, 53, survived and was flown to the hospital, where he could describe the attack on his brother, Media Reports said.
The Sheriff office at Coastal Hampton County confirmed the shooting and said it was being investigated.
The attack took place three months after Murdaugh came home one day to find his wife, Maggie, and Son Paul, a 22-year-old student, shot dead in their land in Islandton Village, in the southwest country.
There was no arrest made in the case of June 7, and the prosecutor recently said that they still did not have a suspect.
But the long history of the Murdaugh family in law enforcement has attracted intense attention and triggered speculation in the months since the shooting.
Alex Murdaugh’s father, great grandfather and grandfather all served as a regional prosecutor.
One line of speculation about the double murder is related to the fact that Paul Murdaugh, at the time of his death, was waiting for the trial on charges from a boat accident that killed a 19-year-old woman.
The report contradicted whether Paul Murdaugh drove a ship at the time.
After a roadside attack on Alex Murdaugh, the family issued a statement, Packet Island newspaper reported.
It reads: “The Murdaugh family experiences more than one family that can be imagined.
We hope Alex will recover and ask for your privacy as he recovers.” Shooting has added a sense of surprise family, said lawyer Griffin.
“It made us all wondering what happened,” he told it at that time.
Leading US lawyers shot months after family members were killed
