When a Beer 'With the Boys' Gets You a Murder Charge

On the night of April 25, 2014, 27-year-old Clint Seymour was found unconscious on the sidewalk. With grainy CCTV footage and a host of conflicting witness statements, the Charleston PD faced a very difficult case to solve—a case that ultimately led to the wrong person being arrested.

It was a Friday night on the infamous Morris street of Charleston, South Carolina; a street known to be the busiest around that time. With all the clubs and bars here, this place saw more action in nighttime than the rest of the city, but around 2 a.m., which is closing time for all the bars, something strange happened.

What you’re seeing is 2 individuals getting into a verbal altercation with a third person. But it doesn’t take long for this altercation to get physical.

Three men across the street who notice the fight, just run up and jump in. Unfortunately, the attack was never captured because it was a rotating camera. It turns away from the fight at the worst possible moment. If the camera had been locked in place a couple seconds longer this would’ve been an open-and-shut case. However this critical moment will make things much... much more difficult.