Alex Murdaugh 'conscious and talking' after gunshot injury in Hampton County

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48. Alex Murdaugh says he will resign from law firm, enter rehab following SC shooting

P-Nutt must be watching the same TV news I'm watching. See his post, just before this one.

I get the impression that this was a self-inflicted wound, delivered so as to be superficial.

Weirdness upon weirdness.

New: Alex Murdaugh releases statement saying he is quitting his law firm, entering rehab two days after he was wounded in a shooting.

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Alex Murdaugh says he will resign from law firm, enter rehab following SC shooting

By Glenn Smith [e-mail] 4 hrs ago

Two days after he was wounded in a shooting, attorney Alex Murdaugh announced that he is quitting his law firm and entering rehab to deal with issues aggravated by the unsolved killings of his wife and son nearly three months ago.

In a written statement issued Sept. 6, Murdaugh didn’t mention the weekend incident in which he was shot in the head in Hampton County. Rather, he spoke of his struggles in the wake of the June 7 shooting that claimed the lives of his son Paul, 22, and his wife Maggie, 52. They were slain at the family’s rural hunting lodge along the Hampton and Colleton county lines.

“The murders of my wife and son have caused an incredibly difficult time in my life,” Murdaugh stated. “I have made a lot of decisions that I truly regret. I’m resigning from my law firm and entering rehab after a long battle that has been exacerbated by these murders.

“I am immensely sorry to everyone I’ve hurt including my family, friends and colleagues,” he said. “I ask for prayers as I rehabilitate myself and my relationships.”

Murdaugh did not elaborate on the decisions he referred to in his statement, nor did he divulge what he will be treated for in rehab. As of Sept. 5, he was recovering in a Savannah hospital from what the State Law Enforcement Division described as a “superficial gunshot wound to the head.”

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