Days before an Horry County hearing to determine whether two men who shot and killed Scott Spivey are civilly immune from their actions, one of the shooters has asked the judge to rule in his favor and dismiss the case against him.
Kenneth “Bradley” Williams filed a motion Feb. 11 asking Judge Eugene Griffith Jr. to make a pretrial determination that he is immune from the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Spivey’s family under South Carolina’s Protection of Persons and Property Act, or more commonly known as Stand Your Ground.
The request comes before a hearing on Tuesday that will determine whether Williams and Weldon Boyd, a North Myrtle Beach restaurant owner, will be subject to the lawsuit. The two men have not been charged criminally in the case after the state Attorney General’s Office ruled the shooting was self-defense under the Stand Your Ground law…