Randall Wright was house-sitting for a friend when two would-be armed robbers forced their way into the house. Wright pulled out a gun and pleaded with the robbers to back off, but they would not. One shouted "kill him, kill him," and gunfire broke out. One gunman fled the scene, but the other was left wounded and died later from his sucking chest wounds.

The man who fled was later apprehended and is being held by police. While some states charge the surviving accomplices* with first degree murder, South Carolina is not one of those states.

* Ohio, for instance will charge a co-conspirator with murder if their accomplice dies while committing a crime.