[Whitfield:] All right, trying to kill people for kicks. That's what investigators in South Carolina say these two young men did. They are charged with three counts of attempted murder. And it's a blessing they apparently had bad aim. A teenage girl was hit. It could have been worse. Twenty-year-old Bryan Holder, that you would see on the left when there was a two-shot there, right there, and then 17-year- old Mattison Schomer allegedly fired shots in two separate incidents early this month. The girl, who was 19, is going to recover. Investigators say the suspects laid in a field off an Ashville highway in Spartanburg County using a high powered rifle with a scope. Let's get the full story now from Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright, who is on the phone with us now. So you say this case reminds you a lot about that sniper case that many people remember in the Washington, D.C., area, 2002, two shooters killing 10 people. What were some of the similarities here?
[Sheriff Chuck Wright, Spartanburg County, South Carolina:] Well, we had two individuals that thought it would be fun, so to speak, in their words, not mine, to lay in a field and experience killing someone. And if it hadn't been for some very good investigative work, and some an officer, one of our investigators paying attention to detail, he wasn't even working on that case and he solved this case for us. So this could have been potentially
[Whitfield:] Yes. So, sheriff, now did these shooters, or at least one of them, actually confess to investigators that they were doing this out of sheer pleasure? That they just wanted to know what it felt like to shoot someone?
[Wright:] One of the gentlemen is cooperating with us. The Schomer guy. He is actually cooperating with us. The other guy wants a lawyer. So we're going to have to, obviously, follow what the rules say about his rights. But, you know, one gentlemen says I'm sorry and the other one says, you know, you have no evidence. But we do and
[Whitfield:] And so, sheriff, what did these suspects say, or at least maybe the one that's cooperating, you know, Mattison Schomer, the one with the goatee on the right there, what did he or they reveal about how they would pick their alleged victims?
[Wright:] I don't really want to get into that because of the fact that we still got a little bit of work to do on this. I don't want to talk too much specifically about the case. But that was the message that we got, that this was just random. They didn't know any of these people.
[Whitfield:] Can you reveal what broke the case? What lead you to these suspects?
[Wright:] Yes, I can. One of our investigators was working a property crime case and on a burglary over off the east side of town and he was paying attention to small details pretty much and one of the guys when he interviewed, he said, well, I'm going to help myself, I know something you probably need to know. So he starts talking and it went from there. It was pretty much by accident we broke the case, but it was good investigative work for him to pay attention to the things that had been going on around us in the county and just kind of keeping up with that kind of stuff. And he ran with it from there. It was very fortunate that we had an officer that was listening.
[Whitfield:] Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright, thanks so much. Incredible details on that story. I know there is much relief on the highways, or at least in that area, where the shootings were occurring. Thanks so much.
[Wright:] Thanks. Thank you.
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