Last month, Murdaugh was shot hours after resigning from his job earlier this month, told 911 that he was shot in the head while changing a flat tire, which caused a "superficial" wound, authorities confirmed on September 14 via NBC News.

Murdaugh's attorney, Richard Harpootlian, told the TODAY Show Wednesday (September 15) that his client was trying to get off opioids -- which he said Murdaugh took to get over the death of his son and wife while battling depression -- at the time he came up with the suicide plot.

Harpootlian said Murdaugh enlisted a man to kill him during a "fake car breakdown" as he believed his insurance policy had a suicide clause and the scheme was an "attempt on his part to do something to protect his child."

Harpootlian and Jim Griffin, another attorney representing Murdaugh, said it became "clear Alex believed that ending his life was his only option" in a joint written statement, adding, "today, he knows that's not true."

"For the last 20 years, there have been many people feeding his addiction to opioids," the statement read. "During that time, these individuals took advantage of his addiction and his ability to pay substantial funds for illegal drugs," the statement said. "One of those individuals took advantage of his mental illness and agreed to take Alex's life, by shooting him in the head."

On September 6, Murdaugh released a statement by NBC News revealing that he resigned from his position in order to enter rehab after he "made a lot of decisions that I truly regret," which included allegedly "misappropriated funds," hours after being shot in what was believed to be a roadside attack.

"This is disappointing news for all of us," the law firm, Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick, said in a statement obtained by NBC News. "Rest assured that our firm will deal with this in a straightforward manner. There's no place in our firm for such behavior."

The firm, which was founded by Murdaugh's great-grandfather, said a forensic accounting firm planned to undergo an internal investigation and had already notified law enforcement and the South Carolina Bar of its plans.

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