A Spartanburg County man who confessed to killing his stepfather then put a shotgun to his own head and held off SWAT team deputies for two hours is alive and behind bars.
It started late Monday morning when deputies were sent to a home on Cindy Lane in the Mayo Community in response to the report of a shooting.
When they arrived a man, identified as 36-year-old Darren Lee Grissom, came out, told them he had shot his stepfather to death and ordered them to go away.
When they offered to call an ambulance instead, investigators say Grissom went back inside then emerged holding a shotgun to his head. He put it down and gave up after two hours of negotiating.
The body of 62-year-old Joseph Edward Breeze was in the house. Grissom is charged with murder and possession of a weapon in a violent crime. No word on a motive yet.
