Introducing: Camp Swamp Road

Hey, I've got a guy pointing a gun at me driving.

We're armed as well.

He keeps throwing the gun in our faces.

A man is calling 911 about a reckless driver.

A reckless driver with a gun.

All right, so he's turning on to Camp Swamp Road.

What road?

Camp Swamp Road.

Seconds later, a man is shot dead.

No, I want with that, just emergency.

Uh, yeah,

something doesn't look right over on Camp Swamp Road.

I'm Valerie Borline, and I've covered the south for the Wall Street Journal for more than 20 years.

This shooting was deemed a justifiable homicide.

Under South Carolina's standard ground law, the police determined that the shooters acted in self-defense.

When I turned in here, he got out of that truck, had his pistol, he ragged it, aimed, and shot.

Most self-defense shootings in the United States fly under the radar, but not this one, because of a few key factors.

A police cover-up.

I was in the shadows last night.

I weren't there, but I was in the shadows.

One man's decision to record all of his phone calls.

Oh, I was on his ass, and his truck couldn't outrun my truck.

And he knew it.

So, yeah, he was terrified.

And one sister's determination to learn everything she could about her brother's death.

I'm literally standing in front of them holding out

everything

that is wrong, and they're telling me to sit down.

From the journal, this is Camp Swamp Road.

Find Camp Swamp Road in the journal feed on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

Listen to episode one, available September 15th.