SC lawyer to turn himself in on insurance fraud

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Defense attorneys for a salient South Carolina lawyer accidental helium plans to crook himself successful to look charges successful a crippled to put his ain decease that ended with the shooter lone grazing him successful the head.

Lawyer Jim Griffin says Alex Murdaugh plans to beryllium successful Hampton County to surrender to constabulary Thursday and person a enslaved hearing.

Griffin says the charges are connected to security fraud.

Murdaugh was changeable successful the caput portion driving connected Sept. 4, but survived erstwhile the slug lone grazed his head. A household spokesperson had antecedently blamed the shooting connected an unidentified antheral successful a bluish truck.

However, Murdaugh reportedly admitted to constabulary connected Monday that helium had conspired with the shooter arsenic portion of an security fraud strategy truthful his lad could cod a $10 cardinal beingness security claim.

According to CNN, Murdaugh had already decided to extremity his ain beingness but believed his security constabulary had a termination exclusion.

USA Today reports that days earlier the Sept. 4 shooting, the South Carolina Supreme Court had indefinitely suspended his instrumentality license aft his salient instrumentality steadfast accused him of misusing funds.

Murdaugh's impending apprehension besides comes aft helium recovered his woman and 1 of his sons dormant astatine the family's hunting spot successful June. Both had been fatally shot, and their deaths stay nether investigation.

According to Bluffton Today, Murdaugh had besides antecedently been charged with boating nether the power successful transportation with a 2019 incidental that pb to the decease of a 19-year-old woman. Those charges were aboriginal dropped.

Bluffton Today besides reported successful June that constabulary reopened an probe into the 2019 hit-and-run decease of a 19-year-old antheral portion investigating the murders of Murdaugh's woman and son.

CNN reports that Murdaugh plans to voluntarily surrender to constabulary successful Hampton County, South Carolina, by 2 p.m. ET Thursday.