DSS worker arrested after pulling a gun on college students
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Victims say man threatened to kill them after traffic incident Monday night near Coastal Carolina University.
Courtesy:
J. Reuben Long Detention Center
Scott Grainger
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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This is just my opinion but I have no doubt that this young immature driver was the catalyst for this road rage incident and wish more people like that would get in trouble for their actions, but there is no excuses the use, or attempted use of deadly force. Graingers actions were wrong and now he will pay the price and these younger road menaces will most likely continue to go through life as if they were the righteous and the rest of us mere citizens are just not as cool as they are.
I wish this was all much simpler but it is not. Now days you have to be a great driver to be able to deal with all the punks and gremlins out there, but only a fool pulls a gun on someone in order to threaten them. If you are not a proactive driver and do not know how to use other vehicles around you to keep the non drivers at bay, then you are wide open for someone to cut you off. But everyone knows the only reason to pull a gun is for the purpose of neutralizing an eminent threat. Another words self defense and that did not apply in this case. They all had the obligation to try and retreat and report it to law enforcement.
wow - ruin a man’s life and livelyhood while those ‘sweet innocent babies’ get a ‘hug’. I went through Conway once and a truck full teens ran us off the road and threw chewing tobacco spit on our car and another car. We (our car and other car)called police and gave tag number and followed the truck until police could catch up with us. Police did not stop the truck and said he didnt need tag number because anyone could be driving the truck and that if we tried to file a complaint that he would have the teens sign a warrant on us for stalking. It was unreal - those poor babies in that truck was innocent and we were the criminal. The truck rode back by us as the officer made us present ID and warned us about stalking. We even called the head officer and still got repremanded for stalking! As for our vehicles we were not allowed to stay in town to wash them we had to leave immediately.
My thoughts on this is, if the CCU students did cut him off, they would go against his story so they would not get in trouble. Most teenagers and college students do not want their names ruined, so they try to ruin others. Yes, he may have been in the wrong by getting out, but the CCU students could have taken their lives, his life and as well as others. The students and Grainger as well both know the truth, and i imagine it was not all set out. Grainger was just trying to protect his life even though others were put into danger. The CCU students out numbered him, so they could all get one story straight, and it may not be the truth. This case really needs to be investigated. His job even states that he cares for kids, so why would he try to hurt them? He wouldn’t like for his kids to be in foster care, so he wouldn’t mistreat them. The case is no where near solved. The county needs to get both sides of the story straight, but as i said earlier, CCU students, as well as any other child, do not want their names ruined. They can all easily come up with a story and stick to it. Its just a matter of he said, she said.
So it is basically “he said, she said” except the “car full of students” out number him by several. On their word only he is in jail and they are “victims”. By court time they will be singing an in step lullaby about what happened. Of course we all know that a car full of CCU’s finest would never depart from the truth.
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