South Carolina police authorities reportedly made an arrest in connection with the shooting of South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh.
Murdaugh told authorities he was shot on Sept. 4 while he was detained on the side of the road in Varnville for repairing a cut tire.
A van driver had passed Murdaugh and was turning around, asking if he had any problems with the vehicle, Murdaugh’s lawyer Jim Griffin told WIS.
Murdaugh began talking to the man inside the truck as he opened fire, Griffin reportedly said.
Investigators have offered little information about the mysterious shooting. Police sources revealed the arrest in connection with the case to WCBD, a local NBC affiliate.
It is the latest development in a series of strange and horrific events for Murdaugh, the fall of which has been widely publicized since his wife and 22-year-old son were shot dead in June near a kennel located next to the family hunting lodge, near Islandton.
Two days after he was shot, Murdaugh resigned from his lucrative family law firm and later went into rehab for substance abuse.
Murdaugh is also the subject of a state investigation into the allegations that he stole money from Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth and Detrick.
The Murdaughs are one of South Carolina’s most prominent legal families, with three generations serving consecutively as the 14th Circuit’s attorney.