Trial for alleged hitman accused of shooting Greenville attorney [Video]

A Greenville courthouse has the makings of a “Dateline” episode, involving an accused hitman, a local attorney shot and a mysterious, fatal car wreck.On April 18, 2023, attorney JP Baum was shot beside a car outside the Law Offices of Truluck Thomason. In a statement he released, he said, “My right lung collapsed. As I started to take what I believed was my last breaths in this world, I called my wife to tell her I was dying and that I loved her.”Nearly a month later, investigators arrested Travis Douglass, a Hilton Head man with no criminal record.The state says Douglass agreed to shoot and kill an attorney for his friend David Smith, an architect. The Law Offices of Truluck Thomason was suing him for more than a million dollars for construction issues.On April 18, 2023, video shows a man driving a recreational vehicle past the law offices, getting out, …