South Carolina’s top prosecutor dramatically pointed a shotgun at the back of a crime-scene expert’s head while dismissing a “preposterous” defense against Alex Murdaugh murdering his wife and son.
State Attorney General Alan Wilson grabbed the 12-gauge gun after calling his final witness ahead of closing arguments due to start Wednesday.
After checking it was unloaded, Wilson used the weapon to reenact how the defense claims one of two killers stood over Murdaugh’s son Paul, 22, to blow his brains out.
“You’ve given permission to point this at you, correct?” Wilson asked the expert, Kenneth Kinsey.
Kinsey then stood outside the courtroom door to demonstrate the defense’s theory on how Paul and his mom Maggie, 52, were killed in dog kennels at one of their estates in June 2021.
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