SOCASTEE, S.C. — State agents have charged a 38-year-old Socastee man after a Horry County Police Department welfare check on Hayes Point Circle turned into an Oct. 15 gunfire exchange and a neighborhood standoff.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said the responding Horry County officer met Kyle James Smith coming out a rear door armed. Smith aimed a handgun toward the officer, and the officer returned fire. Smith was not struck, retreated inside, and the officer discharged a second round.
More Horry County officers and the department SWAT unit arrived. Commanders learned a child was still in the house. Smith later sent the child out; medics checked the child and found no injuries. Smith then gave himself up. SLED reported no physical injuries to anyone on scene.
SLED later accused Smith of aiming a firearm at a person and putting a child in unlawful danger. Prosecutors in the 15th Circuit Solicitor’s Office will take the case. Horry County police asked SLED to run the criminal inquiry into the shooting.
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