Police: Simpsonville Man Terrorized, Threatened by Son

A Simpsonville man claims his grown son pulled a gun on him and threatened to kill him before the father was eventually able to flee the house to safety, a Simpsonville Police incident report stated.

The father declined to prosecute his son at the insistence of his wife, but told police that he was awakened late one night last week when his son showed up at his house.

The father said his son appeared very angry and said that he had spilled soda on his hands and needed to wash them. According to the report, after going into the kitchen, the father said his son then pulled and pointed a gun at his father and said, "to get back (expletive) or I'll kill you!"

When the father tried to get away from him, the report said, the son followed and shoved him against a door and then instructed him where to stand and told him, "Now I'm going to kill you (expletive)!"

The father said he then ran from the house and stated that he could see the laser sight from his son's handgun bouncing around as he was running away. The father ran to his in-laws' house nearby, where he called police.

The father said there has been lots of tension lately over money, primarily with issues over an inheritance and large sums of money the parents have lent to their son. The father stated in the report his son "is a greedy bully that who is trying to get things that do not belong to him."

The father said he was "very afraid" what his son might do to him and his wife, who was in Charleston at the time of the attack, the report said. The mother, the report said, insisted that the son not be charged.

Police said they have attempted to reach the son numerous times to no avail.