The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has closed a shooting case involving a South Carolina Department of Natural Resources officer and no charges will be filed.
The case involving a shooting with an SCDNR officer in Dillon County in August has been closed, according to Thom Berry, with SLED. No criminal charges will be filed.
The shooting happened around 6:45 p.m. on August 15 on River Access Road, just off of Highway 57 South in Dillon, according to Capt. Cliff Arnette, with the Dillon County Sheriff’s Office.
Berry previously told News13 that SCDNR officials were conducting litter surveillance at a boat landing off Highway 57 South and there was a confrontation with a man in a vehicle prior to the shooting.
The driver was wounded in the shooting, but Berry said he was expected to be okay. The SCDNR officer was not hurt.
Mattie Tyndall spoke with News13 in August after the shooting and said a game warden with the Department of Natural Resources shot and injured her 17-year-old son.
“He went to leave and went to go around the truck. The man hollers ‘stop!’ Bam. And shoots my child,” she said. “My child stopped. The only reason the truck jerked is because he asked him ‘Man, please let me put it in park.’”
Tyndall also said the bullet grazed her son’s chest and struck him in the right arm. She said about three inches of bone had been replaced with metal plates.