One month after his wife Maggie Murdaugh and son Paul Murdaugh were murdered, Alex Murdaugh filed a lawsuit in connection to a 2018 boat crash in Allendale County, South Carolina.
When Paul Murdaugh was murdered, he stood accused of three felony boating under the influence charges in connection with a 2019 Beaufort County boat crash that killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach. Alex Murdaugh, who owned the boat, and his son Buster Murdaugh are two of three defendants in an ongoing lawsuit filed by Beach’s mother.
On July 9, Alex Murdaugh filed a lawsuit on behalf of his client Abigail Reanne Hiers, a Hampton, South Carolina teenager who was severely injured in a Savannah River boat crash on July 14, 2018. Hiers is suing John Speer, the alleged driver of the speedboat that ran over Hiers and her friend Sydney Doremus while they were on a sandbar.
Speer did not stop to check on the girls, who were severely injured in the crash, according to a GoFundMe page.
Instead, he turned himself in to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources four days after the crash, the Augusta Chronicle reported.
Speer was charged with two felony counts of failure to render aid in an accident with great bodily injury and two misdemeanor counts of reckless boating, according to court documents.
Speer is still awaiting trial in the 2018 boat crash. He faces up to 10 years in prison for each felony count and up to 30 days in jail for each misdemeanor charge.
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