The statement of the couple over 70 years old says that the man was aggressive towards them and that the murder would have been in personal defense, however, the young man’s family doubts the version.
A strange fact that is being investigated by the authorities of South Carolina, in the United States, It happened last Tuesday at Lake Keowee, where an elderly couple shot and killed a man after rescuing him from the water.
According to the story of 74 year old man before the prosecution, they would have helped Nathan Drew Morgan after being seen without a life jacket floating in the middle of the lake. When they picked him up, he told them that he was on a jet ski with a woman, but that they had thrown him away.
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The old man assured that when they were on the boat they began to argue and that even the 29-year-old would have tried to push his 72-year-old wife overboard, so finally he returned it to the water.
However, the argument did not end there because Morgan would have gone back to the boat to end the argument, and that was when the man He was shot in the chest.
From the prosecutor’s office they await the autopsy of the young man to determine if he was drunk, which would explain his violent reaction, or rule out other types of injuries.
Although the elderly couple assures that their actions were in self-defense, from the environment of the young man, who had a 10-year-old son, they do not believe in the version and they assure that Morgan was a quiet person, who was part of a Christian church.
“Anyone who knew Drew knows this is absolute nonsense. He wouldn’t hurt or attack anyone unless he felt threatened.” wrote Kelcie Bratton, one of her friends on Facebook.
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