I come to you this morning with a very difficult case that we've had investigate one that we have spent countless hours praying over seeking counsel for and it's so it's just a tough thing to to deal with. But I don't normally go over all the facts and the details of the case like I'm going to do this one, but it's very important that the public understand why we came to our conclusion. So on august 5th Travis draper was shot and killed during a road rage yesterday. Mr Draper left this house that morning, approximately 6:00 go to work by way of highway to 95. At approximately 6:17 mr Draper stopped at the intersection of 2 95 and 56 for a red light. A male subject pulled alongside Mr Draper at the red light. Mr Draper and the message that got into a verbal altercation with each other about the male subjects being too close to Mr Draper's vehicle. They did not touch or anything and the guy said he was in his own lane. The light changes. Both men began traveling along each other on highway to 95 to 95 towards highway 2 21 A verbal ultra provocation continued between the two men. Mr Draper and the other man both increase their speech and begin to drive aggressively while passing other vehicles on the road. And approximately 6:21 a.m. surveillance videos footage shows Mr draper chasing the other man through the intersection of 2 95 on Southport Avenue on the South Avenue passing and almost struck in an uninvited uninvolved vehicle and finally pulling alongside the other man. Mr Draper drew his pistol and pointed the firearm at the other man. The other man, seeing Mr Draper pointing a gun, drew his own gun and shot one time towards Mr Draper. The bullet struck and killed Mr Draper, the other man, not knowing that Mr Draper had been struck by the bullet, fled the area and continued to work. Mark my county Sheriff's office investigators responded to the incident location where we began our investigation. It was later determined that the other man called his wife and told her of the incident. Approximately 2.5 hours after the incident occurred, the man's wife realized from the news that the sheriff's office is investigating the death of Mr Draper. The man's wife informed her husband that Mr Draper had been killed on Highway 2 95. The man and his wife immediately began seeking the services of attorneys. The man's attorney contacted the sheriff's office on the same day as the incident and arranged for the man to come forward to give his testimony and provide physical evidence to the sheriff's office. We still didn't know who to person. The other person was until the morning that he came in the sheriff's office, investigators were able to gather physical evidence, witness testimonies including Mr Draper's wife and several sources of surveillance video which showed the incident. Spartanburg County Sheriff's office and the department county solicitor's office conducted an in depth reviews of the evidence in this case. Both agencies concur that the other man committed no violation of the cycle in law code of laws when he shot Travis draper in self defense. Now it's important to note that there's a lot of things going on in this case. Um we know by evidence that and by witnesses that there Mr Draper did have a weapon and it was laying right by his hand in the passenger seat and his passenger window was rolled down. There was one bullet hole that entered underneath the armpit. And the only way you can get shot under the armpit is if you've got your arm up, nothing went through his arm. No other it was one shot fired just as the other gentleman said. Now the coroner's office and myself have called everybody that we know. I'm sorry the solicitor's office in the Sheriff's office, we've called everybody that we know asking if there's any way or any reason how we can charge somebody in this case. There is no code of laws that I've been made aware of that. We can charge this young man. He did this in self defense. Now do I like it? No, I don't like it when two people have road rage, I don't like it when two people are driving up and down the road, bear aggressively and our evidence and put video footage clearly shows. Mr draper was the aggressor by coming up beside this guy passing on the wrong side of an oncoming traffic and driving through the medium very aggressively to get up with him. Mrs Draper was on the phone telling her husband, please don't do that. Leave it alone. He didn't hit your car. Just go to work. This is very tragic and we don't we don't we don't like these cases. I'm a firm believer that in this case I think both of them certainly were um responsible for what the end result was. But it don't make it no better for the draper family that's for sure. They don't make it no easier for me To have to tell their mom and the dad and a husband and all their family that there's no laws that I can apply. I've checked. I promise you I've checked and I've checked about 15 times so I will try my best answer questions. I mean I think I've explained it about as good as I know to explain it but if you guys have questions I'll try to answer them there. Any robbery I understand want to give you looked at them. I mean there's just nothing we we looked and have no evidence whatsoever to suggest this was a white and a black thing or a black and white thing. We looked we looked at everything. We look I looked at every traffic law, I looked at every possible scenario and the self defense law still covers that. Yeah. Even in a moving vehicle that see I had to hang up with that too. But it still applies. And I'm I mean I've tried I looked I looked in depth book. Yes this whole weapons. The other gentleman was Mr Draper had a right to have his weapon because he headed in the dash. And is it um compartments? We had every right to put it by south Carolina laws. He had every right to keep it in the dash and that's where his wife said that he kept it for the other guy had concealed. Right that's right, right. He had every right to have it because of where he kept. He kept it in the dash like the law says he can what's the other job not going to release that? Think about it all started because they were too close. You know the gentleman, the other gentleman pulled up the side Travis draper at the red light from what we gathered to 95 and 56. Um I'm not