The Whole Kinard Mess

Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
June 26, 2010
On Thursday, June 17th, just before midnight, prominant local attorney and former North Charleston Mayor, Bobby Kinard, fished a key out of his pocket and let himself into an apartment in Mt. Pleasant where his wife and law partner, Susan Kinard, had been staying for about three weeks. Moments later, Bobby Kinard shot 50 year old Terry Portier twice in the shoulder. While Susan called authorites, Bobby fled the scene.
When police stopped Bobby's pick-up truck a few miles from the scene of the shooting, Kinard turned the gun on himself while still seated in the driver's seat.
Portier survived two gunshot wounds. Kinard died instantly.
On Saturday, June 19th, the Post and Courier reported Susan Kinard as stating that she was not romantically involved with Terry Portier and that he was just a friend.
Charleston.net (the on-line arm of the Charleston Post & Courier) has released the 911 calls of Susan Kinard and Terry Blackwood (a private detective who was at the scene working for Bobby). In Susan's call for help, she identifies Terry Portier as her "boyfriend" and furthermore states, "that's why my husband shot him."
The word on the street is that Susan Kinard has hired prominant Attorney Gedney Main Howe to represent her. There is talk that she is planning a civil action against Blackwood for causing the death of her husband.
There's a LOT more to this story.
Stay tuned . . .