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March 22, 2022

Anna Murray 

After a 29-year-old man was fatally shot on a boat after being rescued, police in South Carolina chose not to seek charges, citing self-defense as the cause. Nathan Drew Morgan, 29, was shot by an unnamed 74-year-old man after being rescued from Lake Keowee on March 15, according to the Oconee County Sheriff's Office.

According to information and evidence gathered throughout the investigation, a man and a woman on a pontoon boat noticed a man and a woman on a jet ski in danger in the water. Life jackets were not worn by the man and woman in the water.

The pontoon boat pair approached them and helped them board their boat. After being rescued, the man became upset and assaulted the couple on the pontoon. While being assaulted, the man on the pontoon fired a self-defense shot at the attacker, fearing for his and his wife's lives. The man who was shot died on the pontoon, according to the sheriff's office.

According to an autopsy report, Morgan died from a single gunshot to the chest inside the man's pontoon boat. The shooting was ruled to be in self-defense by officials in the US state of South Carolina, and no charges will be brought.