HILTON HEAD — New videos have surfaced that provide further details about a weekend confrontation in which an off-duty Beaufort County sheriff’s deputy pulled a gun on several teens and threatened to shoot them in the middle of a neighborhood street.
Both the sheriff’s office and the State Law Enforcement Division are investigating the matter. Neither agency has publicly identified the officer.
The Post and Courier has learned that the incident in the Squiresgate neighborhood involved
Master Sgt. William “Billy” Squires, a 19-year-veteran of the department.
The sheriff’s department previously acknowledged only that the officer lives in the neighborhood. Public records list Squires’ address in the Squiresgate area. When the newspaper requested Squires’ personnel file from the SC C