Murdaugh update—

The Mercedes-Benz GLS sport utility vehicle driven by prominent South Carolina attorney R. Alexander “Alex” Murdaugh on Saturday - the day he sustained a “superficial” gunshot wound to the head while purportedly changing a tire on the side of a rural Hampton county road - was equipped with run-flat tires, sources familiar with the situation have confirmed to this news outlet.

These tires - also known as “extended mobility tires” - allow a vehicle to travel approximately fifty miles with little to no tire pressure due to the presence of a reinforced sidewall.

“Alex was changing a tire when a car passed him,” WCIV TV 4 (ABC - Charleston, S.C.) reported on Saturday, quoting Griffin. “The vehicle turned around and someone in the car shot him.”

Most Mercedes SUVs equipped with run-flat tires do not include spare tires - which would mean there would have been no reason for Murdaugh to pull over to the side of the road to try and change a flat tire.

(He was 7 miles from home when this tragic flat tire incident happened)

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