No charges will be filed in the death of a man who was shot in his car Tuesday outside Sunset Grill on U.S. 29, Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride said Friday.

Antwan Evans, 32, who lived in Atlanta and had family in Albany, Georgia, had driven two hours to Anderson to meet with the woman who was in the car with him, according to Deputy Coroner Don McCown. McCown said Evans and the woman, whose identity has not been disclosed by investigators, had previously been in a relationship. She is an employee of the Independent Mail.

Evans and the woman were supposed to be going to breakfast to talk when things went sour, investigators said. Evans and the woman got into a disagreement over several things, one of which was that Evans wanted to see her phone and to know who she had been talking to, McBride said.

"He pulled a gun on her inside the car," McBride said in an interview Friday. "She had a split second to grab it and fight for her life. A struggle ensued, and he was shot."

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Evans was shot in the chest.

When deputies arrived, he was dead in the driver's seat of a red Camaro.

McBride said the woman acted in self-defense.

"She did what she had to do to survive," he said. "She survived to tell her story, and her story adds up."

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