A South Carolina man in the middle of a lengthy legal battle over a domestic dispute called 911 Tuesday night, minutes before he allegedly gunned down his girlfriend, her parents, and two of the parents’ grandchildren, authorities said Wednesday.
Bryan Sweatt, the 27-year-old Greenwood resident identified by authorities as the shooter, had placed a call at 5:51 p.m. Tuesday night from the home of his girlfriend’s parents. He also had an extensive criminal record of burglary, forgery, and assault, authorities said.
In 911 audio obtained by The News, a man can be heard telling the emergency dispatcher that he was “stressed out” and called for police to be sent out to his home on Callison Highway. “I’m about to take my life,” he told the operator.
A woman – likely his girlfriend, Chandra Fields, 26 – can be heard crying in the background. Greenwood investigators believe the dispute was over Sweatt’s belief that Fields didn’t allow him to see their infant child as much as he would like.
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“Do you have a weapon with you?” the dispatcher asks. “Yes,” the man said, confirming he had a .44-caliber weapon. “Get in there!” he then yelled.
“Don’t point at me,” a woman can be heard saying in the background, weeping. Then the call disconnects. Authorities believe that Sweatt broke into the Fields’ house and waited for his victims.
Authorities named the dead as Richard Fields, 51, his wife, Melissa Fields, 49, Chandra Fields, and two of her parents’ grandchildren, 11-year-old Tariq Robinson and 9-year-old William Robinson.
In a second 911 call, Sweatt’s neighbor calls to say four terrified little children arrived at her front door saying that their mommy had been shot. By the time S.W.A.T. teams arrived at around 7:30 p.m., they came upon a scene of carnage.
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Both Sweatt and Chandra Fields were discovered in a bedroom. Fields was shot execution style, authorities said. The other bodies were scattered in two other rooms of the home.
“Once you see a grisly scene like this, it never leaves you,” Greenwood County Sheriff Tony Davis said.
With Doyle Murphy and News Wire Services
bstebner@nydailynews.com
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