Nighttime Shooting - Security Guard

The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office has filed charges against a safety guard concerned in a deadly shooting at an Anderson nightclub that ended in a wipe out last weekend.

Authorities say 25-year-old Joey Johnson, Jr. has been emotional with attack and assassination in the bereavement of 21-year-old India Lomax. He has turned himself in to establishment, according to Sheriff John Skipper.

Investigators say Lomax died from a gunshot injury in the back as her troop absent from the nightclub Marvon’s Place now after 4 a.m. Saturday. Her passenger 31-year-old Willis Donald had been blast in the support.

Johnson told deputies he fired in personality protection as Lomax’s pickup veered towards him. The event occurs only minutes behind numerous armed safety guards had stopped a quarrel in the nightclub’s parking lot.

Deputies say Lomax drove the truck a small distance down S.C. Highway 25 before crashing into a parked car, then a value pole. That was where deputies discovered her. Anderson County Coroner Dan McCone said an autopsy found Lomax died from a single gunshot wound in her reverse.

Sheriff Skipper said Lomax’s truck had 11 bullet holes in it and that it appears Johnson was the only being to fire a weapon that nighttime.

Johnson’s legal representative says her customer believes he acted correctly and plans to fight the charges.