HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office is offering its legal opinion on a controversial road rage shooting in Horry County.

Attorney General Alan Wilson‘s office said it told the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division that it believes South Carolina’s “Stand Your Ground” law was applicable in the shooting death of Scott Spivey.

Authorities said Weldon Boyd, the owner of Buoys on the Boulevard in North Myrtle Beach, shot and killed Spivey in September 2023 along Camp Swamp Road in the Longs area following a road rage incident.

Boyd and his passenger, Kenneth Williams, have maintained they fired shots at Spivey in self-defense.

South Carolina’s “Stand Your Ground” is given in cases where the use of deadly force is deemed lawful.

The attorney general’s

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