Who’s mentioned in calls detailing deadly shooting of Scott Spivey? At least 7 SC leaders.
At least seven South Carolina and Horry County leaders were mentioned in phone calls by a North Myrtle Beach restaurant owner who detailed how he shot and killed a North Carolina man in 2023.
Some of the calls by Weldon Boyd, owner of Buoys on the Boulevard and one of the two shooters who killed Scott Spivey, highlight Boyd’s alleged connections to state and county leaders and his efforts to use those connections to make sure he would not be charged in the death, which was ruled a homicide.
Boyd and the second shooter, Kenneth “Bradley” Williams, have not been charged in the shooting that occurred on Camp Swamp Road in the Longs area in September 2023. The shooting was ruled self-defense
The audio recordings of Boyd were recently released by the family of Scott Spivey. The recordings were part of a wrongful death case filed by the family against Boyd and Williams.
The highest ranking official mentioned is state Rep. William Bailey, who is the Republican representative for District 104 in Horry County.
In a phone call with his mother and Williams, Boyd says that Bailey was going to recognize the two men as “heroes” and award them a proclamation that would be presented at the Statehouse. The information allegedly came from his attorney, Ken Moss, Boyd said in the recording.
“(Bailey is) going to try to get us a proclamation for bravery where we are going to have to go Columbia and dress nice and be awarded a proclamation for Second Amendment,” Boyd tells Williams. “Ken (Moss) said he’s going to make us look like heroes before this thing is over.”
Bailey said April 25, 2025, that he was asked to do a proclamation, but “It was never considered by me. … There was no way I could justify that to myself.”
“It was a tragic situation,” Bailey said of Spivey’s death. Bailey said he would never consider such a proclamation when a death was involved.
