More information has come out regarding the deadly weekend standoff in the Upstate. Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis says the man shot by deputies in a Simpsonville-area subdivision Sunday night was armed, and had fired at them after a 45 minute effort to talk him into giving up. Lewis says 38 year old Matthew David Snyder kept yelling that he wanted to talk to his wife. He was hit in what the Sheriff called "an exchange of shots during a confrontation" with the deputies.
Snyder was rushed to the hospital, but the coroner now says he died shortly after reaching the emergency room around 11:30 Sunday night. That was not disclosed until yesterday afternoon. The episode, which is under the routine SLED investigation as a law enforcement shooting, had started around 8:30. That's when deputies were dispatched to a home on McCall Road in response to a domestic violence call. They were told Snyder had left the house but they caught up with him at the nearby intersection of Twin Falls Road and Black Oak Court, which became the scene of the shootout.
