SUMTER, S.C. (WIS) – The Sumter Police Department (SPD) is set to give an outline the events around a deadly shooting that happened Monday.

A news conference will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at the police station.

Police previously reported two cars fired shots between each other on the road between North Purdy Street near Broad Street after 12:30 p.m. on Monday.

The driver of an uninvolved car — later identified as 59-year-old Blaine Varner — was shot and taken to the hospital. He died the next day, the Sumter County Coroner’s Office announced.

An autopsy for Varner is scheduled for Friday at MUSC in Charleston.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Varner had been with Tandem Health since 2011 specializing in mental and behavioral health.

You can watch a livestream of the news conference here.

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