Overview
- Charleston County School District confirmed through spokesperson Andy Pruitt that Sade Nelson is on administrative leave pending an active investigation.
- The incident occurred on Oct. 18 during a custody exchange in a Walmart parking lot in the Charleston area.
- Nelson has been charged with third-degree assault and battery, domestic violence of a high aggravated nature, and unlawfully placing a child at risk or willfully abandoning a child.
- Police accounts cite witnesses who reported she tried to hit the child's father with a vehicle, while Nelson told officers he assaulted her and their son before she responded.
- Reports say bystanders intervened in the confrontation and that Nelson left with the child before officers arrived.