A week after the funeral, the family complained to county council members that police hadn’t examined Boyd’s phone or his dash-mounted Samsung tablet.
In November 2023, Boyd and Williams gave police their phones and Boyd’s tablet. In response to the Spivey family’s complaints, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agreed to review the police file, which included the calls between Boyd and Strickland.
The state finished its review on Jan. 26, 2024. An agent added a note to the case file saying, “no additional evidence was discovered.”
Foley called lawyer Mark Tinsley about representing the family. Tinsley had never sued a defendant in a stand-your-ground case, largely because the law grants civil immunity to the killer. In fact, he found no record of any lawyer filing such a case in South Carolina.
Tinsley agreed nonetheless, saying he was offended by the idea that a person could follow a driver for 9 miles and then claim self-defense for killing him. “How do you stand your ground when you’re chasing someone else’s?” the personal-injury lawyer said.
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