Suspect in Alex Murdaugh shooting awaits bond hearing in Hampton on assisted suicide counts
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The Murdaugh family saga has dominated the news after another shooting, a resignation and criminal accusations — with Alex Murdaugh at the center of it all. Here are the latest updates on Alex Murdaugh.
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The Walterboro man charged with assisted suicide in the Sept. 4 shooting of Alex Murdaugh was extradited to the Hampton County Detention Center around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Curtis Edward Smith, 61, was arrested by the S.C. Law Enforcement Division in Colleton County on Tuesday and booked into the local jail on two unrelated drug charges: distribution of methamphetamine and possession of marijuana.
Smith is also facing one count each of assisted suicide, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, pointing and presenting a firearm, insurance fraud, and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, SLED’s Tuesday night news release said. Those charges are being handled in Hampton County where the shooting happened.
In his bond hearing Wednesday, he was granted a $5,000 cash surety bond for the methamphetamine charge and a personal recognizance bond for the marijuana charge, a spokesperson with the Sheriff’s Office said.
The hearing before Magistrate Judge Keisha D. Gadsden was at 8:30 a.m. at the Colleton County Detention Center.
Smith is expected to have a bond hearing on his remaining four charges at the Hampton County Detention Center late Wednesday or Thursday.
A Hampton jail official said it was “hard to say” when the bond hearing would be.
“We’re trying to get him down a little bit,” he said.
Alex Murdaugh will likely also be charged in the alleged planned suicide attempt, his attorney said Wednesday morning in an interview on the Today Show.
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This story was originally published September 15, 2021 at 9:17 AM with the headline "Suspect in Alex Murdaugh shooting awaits bond hearing in Hampton on assisted suicide counts."
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