Man fatally shot in Summerville neighborhood

DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) officials say just after 8:00 a.m. Saturday, a man was shot and killed in the Kings Grant neighborhood of Summerville along Kensington Place.

“It’s traumatic,” Kings Grant Homeowners Association president David Carey said, “you know, to come out into your front yard and you’re getting a beautiful day, your day started, maybe yard work and then this happened.”

Kings Grant neighbors are shaken after the deadly shooting on Saturday morning.

“Residents told me that they believe that it was a road rage incident,” Carey said.

Road Rage between two drivers Carey believes carried over from nearby Dorchester Road.

“One car cut another car off,” he said, “gentlemen got out of their vehicles, exchanged some words, exchanged a punch and then a weapon was drawn and fired and an individual lost his life.”

Carey says he spoke with a neighbor who lives in near where the fatal shots were fired.

“One person had actually witnessed,” he said, “or heard very closely, at the time the shots were fired. He came up on the scene, actually tried to help; there was a 4-year-old child that was there, so trying to help comfort the family.”

DCSO officials report Michael Anthony Pressley II has been charged with voluntary manslaughter for his involvement in the shooting.

Kings Grant neighbors, now left trying to wrap their heads around something they say is uncommon for this area.

“Through my years of being in the neighborhood and hearing of different things,” Carey said, “like maybe in 20 years, you might have three, four things that happen, you know.”

The Dorchester County coroner says Zachary Campbell was the man killed in Saturday morning’s shooting.