NEW INFO: Wrecker Owner Was Shot

NEW INFO: Wrecker Owner Was Shot


Greenville police are releasing more information about the death of Walter Clay Malloy. He is the owner of Clay's Wrecker Service. His son found him dead, outside his business early Saturday morning. Police are now saying Malloy was shot and appears to have died from that gunshot.

The word of Walter Clay Malloy's death spread quickly. When fellow tow truck driver, Danny Anderson, heard the news, he just wanted to know one thing.

"Mainly just how it happened, I was just shocked, really shocked," says Danny Anderson with Anderson & Sons Automotive.

In the 911 tapes released by police, an unidentified male caller says Malloy had just towed a white Buick and the owner wanted it back. The Greenville police say they've recovered a "white buick with red doors" with heavy front-end damage that was seen speeding away from the murder.

But no word on a suspect and with towing, you never know who you will meet next.

"When we leave here on those wreckers we don't know who we will pick up or what we are going to run into," says Susie Haddock, Malloy's cousin and a tow truck driver.

With the amount of people and students in Greenville, parking can be a problem. Most people are towed without issue, but sometimes it can get heated. Something Anderson has experienced first hand.

"They may jump in their car, jump on their car, you never know and sometimes you have to call the police to come over and get things straightened out," tells Anderson.

Greenville police are interviewing everyone towed by Clay's Wrecker Service 24 hours prior to his death. Anderson says the public needs to understand one thing...

"Realize we are just doing a job that somebody is going to do. If it is not us, somebody else is gonna do it, because they need it done," tells Anderson,"You know if you're in the wrong, you're in the wrong and that's life."

And Malloy's life didn't need to end this way.

"My cousin was murdered and we're going to find him," says Haddock.