A Department of Social Services foster care worker is out on bond Tuesday afternoon after police arrested him for pulling a gun on a car full of college students Monday night.
According to the victims, it all started when a car full of students pulled into traffic and up to the stoplight near the Atlantic Center across Highway 501 from Coastal Carolina University.
They say Scott Grainger made an obscene gesture, apparently thinking the driver had cut him off, and when the light turned green, he began to follow the car down University Boulevard, through campus.
Once at the stoplight at the intersection of Unviersity Boulevard and Highway 544, the victims say Grainger got out his car, approached their car, and threatened to kill the students inside. They also say he punched one of their windows.
The cars chased each other north on Highway 544, eventually back on to Highway 501, before the victims lost Grainger near the intersection with Highway 701 in Conway.
They then drove straight back to campus, and notified Coastal Carolina University Public Safety officers, and gave them Grainger's license tag number.
CCU police arrested Grainger and charged him with pointing and presenting a firearm, and he was released on $5,000 bond Tuesday morning.
"Even though last night he was locked up, and I was already scared," said Tiffany Boyd, one of the passengers in the car.
According to a spokesperson with DSS, Grainger has been employed in Horry County since September 2007 as an intensive foster care and clinical services coordinator. He does work with foster children, but does not have any foster children in his care.
The spokesperson said Grainger is currently suspended from his job without pay while the investigation continues.
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