Brian Austell Davidson, 31, is led Tuesday afternoon from a Gaffney police car into Municipal Court, where his bond on an attempted murder charge related to a Monday shooting outside the Waffle House was set at $50,000. (Ledger photo / TIM GULLA) A 31-year-old Gaffney man was taken into custody Monday afternoon on a charge of attempted murder in the wake of an early morning shooting outside a West Floyd Baker Boulevard restaurant.

Brian Austell Davidson, of 4th Street, is accused of shooting his cousin in the parking lot of the Waffle House at about 2:35 a.m. Investigators say the two men had been engaged in a dispute, apparently over a rap video that Davidson filmed on Sparks Street and posted on the YouTube video Web site.

The dispute began early Monday at O’Henry’s, a bar on Old Georgia Highway, according to police.

“They parted and they ended up meeting back up at the Waffle House, where the was just sit- victim was just sitting in a car, waiting for someone to come out, when the suspect walked over and fired one round through the open window, striking him in the stomach,” said Gaffney Police Chief Rick Turner.

Amazingly, police said, the bullet caused no internal injuries. The victim was treated and released from Spartanburg Regional Medical Center.

Police said they have not yet recovered the weapon used in the incident.

Davidson was taken into custody at about 4:15 p.m. Monday on Sparks Street, the same place where he recorded the video at the alleged center of the dispute with his cousin.

Davidson appeared in Gaffney Municipal Court on Tuesday afternoon for a bond hearing.

Det. Jott Blackwell, one of the investigators in the case, asked the judge to impose electronic monitoring with an ankle bracelet as a condition of bond, noting that Davidson has ties outside of South Carolina.

“I don’t think that’s an unreasonable request,” Judge Kaye Allison responded.

The judge set Davidson’s bond on the attempted murder charge at $50,000, which must be posted by a professional bondsman. She also ordered that he be subject to electronic monitoring if he posts bond and must stay inside his home.

Davidson asked the judge to set a lower bond amount, arguing “I got no reason to run” and that he wasn’t a danger to the community.

Cherokee County Detention Center records show Davidson was charged with several unrelated offenses for which he has not yet posted bond, including distribution of crack cocaine and possession with intent to deliver crack near a school. His bond on those charges was set at $70,000, according to jail records.

NED & OPERATED