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you appreciate them, but at the same time you have to beware of them because if something goes down, you're going to be the one in trouble, not them. >> good evening, everybody. andrew davis out here in hampton county right now with a story that really everybody is talking about. we now know officially that alex murdaugh was shot. >> alex murdaugh was changing a tire on the side of the road in rural hampton county saturday when a car passed him, turned around, and someone shot him in the head. >> this is when you wonder if they just started making things up or it was a soap opera som...

>> this is a southern version of a mafia story. >> enough evil had been done by the family. it's gone too far this time. >> i have an alex murdaugh on the line. hampton is a small raul community, very few stop lights, country folk. >> generations and generations of families, the same families. >> not a whole lot going on, you know. not a whole lot of jobs. a lot of poverty. >> people like me, we work for our money. we wasn't born with a silver spoon in our mouth. >> nobody ever had any reason to leave that part of south carolina, and nobody had any reason to come to that part of sou...

>> good evening, everybody. andrew davis out here in hampton county right now with a story that really everybody is talking about. we now know officially that alex murdaugh was shot. >> alex murdaugh was changing a tire on the side of the road in rural hampton county saturday when a car passed him, turned around, and someone shot him in the head. >> this is when you wonder if they just started making things up or it was a soap opera somewhere. it seems like it's a tv show more than it seemed like real life, because in this case, how does this get more unusual? and then was it the sam...

Powerful family in that area. >> the only name that was given to me was the murdaugh name. and of course, everybody's kind of shy to say, to say that out, you know what i mean? because of the name, you know, it brings a certain standard when you say murdaugh in hampton county. >> when their name started coming up, i knew immediately, ok, we need to talk with others about this. >> the murdaughs have had so much control of that area for so long, you know, they've built a relative empire. they have, you know, friends, connections everywhere. >> that's the political aspect of it. making sure that ...

Lot of poverty. >> people like me, we work for our money. we wasn't born with a silver spoon in our mouth. >> nobody ever had any reason to leave that part of south carolina, and nobody ever had any reason to come to that part of south caroline. >> small towns generate big fish in small pools. >> hampton is pretty historically dominated by one family -- the murdaughs. >> murdaugh -- that name means power. >> they're a great american family -- who has a successful law firm. had deep roots in their community. >> money, position, power. the murdaughs have had control of hampton county for close t...