MURDER MYSTERY

A prominent US lawyer has been shot in the head in a drive-by attack just months after his wife and son were mysteriously murdered

Alex Murdaugh, from South Carolina, was changing a tyre on the side of the road when someone in a truck drove past, then returned and shot him. Miraculously, he survived and was taken to hospital.

The attack came three months after he returned home one day to find his wife and 22-year-old son shot to death. No arrests have been made and prosecutors have no firm leads, although organised crime is suspected of being involved.