A former Horry County Police deputy chief under scrutiny for his alleged conduct during an investigation in the shooting death of a North Carolina man has a friendship with one of the shooters and appears to use his position to protect the man.
Audio tapes and text messages uncovered during a civil suit filed by Scott Spivey’s family against the two shooters — Weldon Boyd, who owns the North Myrtle Beach restaurant Buoys on the Boulevard, and Kenneth Williams, a passenger in Boyd’s vehicle at the time — show that at least two officers and one elected official had contact with Boyd within days and hours of the deadly shooting.
The audio tapes were turned over to police…