More details are emerging about Walter Scott, the unarmed black man who appears in a shocking video that seems to show a white police officer fatally shooting him in the back eight times.
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1. The father of four was engaged. "He was the most outgoing out of all of us," Scott's brother, Anthony, said Tuesday. "He was well-known in the community."
Anthony, who said his brother was loving and well-liked, recalled spending time with Scott at a recent family oyster roast.
"We hadn't hung out like that in such a long time," Anthony told The New York Times. "He kept on saying over and over again how great it was."
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2. Scott may have fled police because he owed money for child support. A Charleston County sheriff's official said Scott was wanted on a Family Court warrant, Heavy.com reports. "He had back child support and didn't want to go to jail," Chris Stewart, an attorney for the Scott family, said Tuesday. In South Carolina, someone who owes child support can be jailed until the money is repaid, according to The Associated Press.
3. He was a former Coast Guard officer. The AP reports that Scott was with the Coast Guard two years before receiving an honorable discharge.
4. He had been arrested about 10 times, but mostly for nonviolent offenses. According to the Post and Courier, Scott faced one violent charge in his lifetime: He was accused of assault and battery in 1987. The other charges stemmed from owed child support and contempt of court. "He doesn't have some type of big violent past or arrest record," Stewart said.
5. He was fatally shot while fleeing a traffic stop. Scott was driving a Mercedes on Saturday when Officer Michael T. Slager, 33, reportedly stopped him for a broken taillight. Slager initially claimed he feared for his life because Scott took a stun gun during a scuffle, but video that emerged Tuesday appears to show otherwise. The viral clip seems to show Slager firing eight times at Scott's back as Scott lopes away across a grassy lot. Slager, who has faced previous complaints, has been charged with murder.
See the video here. (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT AND LANGUAGE.)
Click here to learn more about the case against Slager and past complaints against him.
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