Man rescued from S.C. lake twice, then shot by rescuer in self defense

[HFS]

Man and woman fall off a jet ski into South Carolina lake. Neither one wearing a life jacket.
A couple in a pontoon boat head over there and take both jet skiers aboard. (Rescue # 1)
The jet ski is going around the lake in circles.
Man from jet ski "became agitated" about going back to get the jet ski and assaulted the couple on the pontoon boat.
The woman from the jet ski pushes the jet ski guy back into the lake.
Pontoon boat couple helped the man get out of the lake again. (Rescue # 2)
Apparently there "may have been some type of argument" aboard the pontoon boat and the jet ski dude wound up getting shot in the chest, with fatal results.
According to the local sheriff's office, the pontoon boat dude said he feared for his and his wife's lives.
Local prosecutor (called the solicitor in S.C.) said it looks like self defense.
https://www.wbtw.com/news/state-reg...ng-on-south-carolina-lake-ruled-self-defense/

 

[Snattlerake]

Geeeze! Talk about an extreme case of the ass!

 

[montesa]

Redbull and vodka?

 

[jakeman]

Eff’ed around. Found out.

 

[RickN]

People are nucking futs nowadays!

 

[TinkerTanker]

Jetflea people are generally the worst. It's the most fun when you're over a nicely producing crappie hole and they start buzzing your boat.

 

[John6185]

Sounded like self-defense to me as long as the local DA approves. Ungrateful wretch!

 

[retrieverman]

People are nucking futs nowadays!

That or just @ssholes.

 

[dennishoddy]

Redbull and vodka?

Most likely.

 

[dennishoddy]

Jetflea people are generally the worst. It's the most fun when you're over a nicely producing crappie hole and they start buzzing your boat.

It was years ago when I was a kid fishing the local lake with my Grandpa. We were just drowning minnows along a point hoping for a bite when a boat with a skier in tow came by with the skier coming across the wake really close to our location just feet off the bank.
The boat made a short circle and came around again doing the same thing and went on down the lake.
Grandpa kept watching it, and got into the tackle box taking out a Devils Horse Dancer lure that has three sets of treble hooks to tie on his pole.
When the boat came around again with the same guy jumping the wake and coming close to us, Grandpa tossed that Devils Horse, hooked the guy and then "set" the hook breaking the line in the process. He was that close.
I'd never seen Grandpa mad, and he wasn't then. He just said, boy, we probably need to go home now, so we packed up and left. He never mentioned it afterward.