A South Carolina man who survived being shot nine times by sheriff’s deputies claims in a lawsuit that he was sitting in his pickup truck and talking to his mom when the lawmen descended on them “like cowboys from a John Wayne movie.”
A South Carolina man who survived being shot nine times by sheriff’s deputies alleges in a newly-filed lawsuit that he was sitting in his pickup truck and talking to his mother when the officers descended on them “like cowboys from a John Wayne movie.”
Bodycam video show Tammy Beason standing beside the truck and talking to her son through the driver's side window; Beason diving backward while yelling in horror as bullets from the sheriff’s deputies hit the vehicle.The deputies fired 50 times at close range and when it was over the deafening roar was replaced by Beason’s piercing screams, the video shows.
Mullinax, 29, lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina, records show. Those same records also indicate he's been arrested for breaking and entering and burglary and for misdemeanor domestic violence. His mother is 48 and also lives in Rock Hill.In the court papers filed May 5 in the local Court of Common Pleas, Mullinax does not deny he was in a bad way before the deputies arrived and the bullets began flying.
In the meantime, a call was placed by either a friend or a family member to the sheriff's department requesting a"wellness check" on Mullinax, the complaint states.Instead of calling the numbers, a team of deputies went to the property and, when they got there, Mullinax's grandfather directed them to the back where his grandson was parked and talking to his mother, the papers state.
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