Alex Murdaugh trial bomb risk suspect recognized: Sheriff

Joey Dean Coleman and Alex Murdaugh

Legislation enforcement authorities in South Carolina say they’ve recognized the person who referred to as in a bomb risk that disrupted the high-profile double-murder trial of Alex Murdaugh two weeks. The risk was referred to as in by Joey Dean Coleman, a 32-year-old man incarcerated in a unique county with no obvious hyperlink to Murdaugh or the homicide trial, the Colleton County Sheriff’s Workplace alleged.

In line with a press launch, a clerk on the sheriff’s workplace at roughly midday on Wednesday, Feb. 8 obtained a name from an nameless telephone quantity. The unidentified male caller informed the clerk that there was a “bomb within the choose’s chamber,” the discharge states. In response to the risk, the clerk instantly notified the courtroom’s safety workplace and the courthouse was promptly evacuated.