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A South Carolina lawyer announced he is resigning from his law firm after being shot in the head. Jeffrey Collins/AP South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh resigned from his law firm and announced his plans to enter rehab. Murdaugh suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the head on Saturday.

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South Carolina lawyer shot 3 months after his wife and son were murdered

South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, whose family has faced months of public scrutiny after his wife and son were slain in unsolved shootings in June, quit his job at a private law firm on Friday — a day before he called 911 to say he had been shot in a roadside attack.

South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh shot months after wife, son murdered

The latest events add yet another twist to an already puzzling case and is certain to feed the questions swirling around the mysterious circumstances of the fatal shootings of Murdaugh's wife, Margaret, 52, and their son, Paul, 22.

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Loveday did not immediately reply to inquiries regarding the rehab facility's location or the program's nature. Meanwhile, no one has been charged in the June 7 killings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh at their Colleton County hunting estate.

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In addition, only days after Paul and Margaret Murdaugh were slain, Alex Murdaugh's father, family patriarch Randolph Murdaugh III, died at the age of 81, bringing further sorrow to an already beleaguered family. Following the murders of his wife and son, Murdaugh issued a $100,000 reward.