Man shoots friend over $20 football bet
Wager on South Carolina-Clemson game leads to man's death
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Man shot dead over $20 football bet Nov. 28: A South Carolina man is charged with murdering a friend over a football rivalry, authorities say. WIS-TV's Dan Tordjman explains how a $20 bet turned into a murder charge. |
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LEXINGTON, S.C. - A man fatally shot his friend with a high-powered rifle in a dispute over a $20 bet on the South Carolina-Clemson football game, authorities said Sunday.
James Walter Quick, 42, was charged with murder in the shooting of Richard Allen Johnson, 43. Johnson died from a single shot to the chest, according to a preliminary autopsy Sunday.
The two had bet $20 on the annual game, with Quick taking South Carolina, which won 31-28, and Johnson taking Clemson, Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said. They drank beer all afternoon and watched the game Saturday at Johnson’s home, and began arguing about the bet after the game.
Metts said Quick went to his car, got the rifle he normally uses for hunting and fired one shot, hitting Johnson in the chest. Deputies arrested Quick.
Quick was being held Sunday in the Lexington County jail, awaiting a bail hearing. The sheriff’s department said he did not yet have a lawyer.
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