After eight years of being classified as highway vehicular manslaughter, the death of a 19-year-old is now being considered a murder, his family's lawyers have said.
Stephen Smith was found dead near the Murdaugh family mansion, in the middle of a Hampton County road in South Carolina on July 8, 2015. His car with the gas cap removed and his wallet still inside was found a short distance away.
The trooper who responded didn't think it was a hit and run, but the pathologist who did the autopsy theorized Smith was hit in the head by the side mirror of a passing truck that did not stop.
