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posted February 26, 2002 08:40 AM
here's the complete article
Solictor Will Decide On Charges In Road-Rage Incident
http://www.msnbc.com/local/wyff/a1086297.asp?cp1=1
GREENVILLE, S.C., 10:48 a.m. EST February 26, 2002 - Greenville County Sheriff Sam Simmons on Monday fired one of his deputies for aiming a gun at a motorist in Friday afternoon traffic.
Now it's up to the solicitor's office to decide if anyone will be charged in the incident.
Simmons said that Deputy David Nalley, who was off duty at the time, acted completely outside sheriff's office policies and displayed conduct unbecoming a law-enforcement officer.
Nalley, a 2 1/2-year veteran of the uniformed patrol, had been on administrative leave since Friday.
He and the motorist, Ken Primm, were involved in a dispute over whether Primm pulled out in front of a car Nalley was riding in.
Regardless of the situation, Nalley, 24, acted completely inappropriately, Simmons said.
"There's just too many things that can go wrong for off-duty deputies to get involved in traffic violations," Simmons told a Monday afternoon news conference. "Another motorist has no way of knowing if an officer in plain clothes and an unmarked car is a legitimate law enforcement officer or just some jerk trying to pull him over or a even a criminal trying to pull him over."
Primm told News 4 that the incident began as he was leaving the Bob Jones University campus Friday afternoon, trying to make a left turn onto Pleasantburg Drive.
Primm said that his two daughters and one of their friends were in the car.
"We had an opening, we crossed the median and got into the middle lane. One car was a ways back," Primm told WYFF News 4's Kisha Foster.
Primm said that the car started coming up behind him quickly and when he changed lanes, it pulled up beside his car.
That's when Nalley, a passenger in the other car, pointed a black automatic weapon at Primm, Primm said.
"He was bearing down on his window pointing at me, three feet from my window," Primm told News 4. "At first, I thought it was a play gun."
Primm said that he and the other car, driven by Nalley's wife, pulled into the nearby Lake Forest Shopping Center.
"I got out of my car and he got out of his," Primm said.
At that point, Nalley identified himself as an off-duty deputy, Primm said.
Now that the sheriff's office has finished its investigation, it will turn the results over to the Solicitor's office to determine if any criminal charges should be filed.
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posted February 26, 2002 07:30 AM
