Georgia police say man who killed 5 people in South Carolina was high on drugs, hadn't slept in 4 days
12.10.2022 - 16:59
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A man using drugs who hadn't slept in days shot and killed five people in a South Carolina home where people gathered to get high, a sheriff said Tuesday. James Douglas Drayton, 24, was arrested on Monday in Burke County, Georgia, after crashing during a police chase, said Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright at a news conference. Drayton was driving a car taken from the home where the shooting took place in the city of Inman, the sheriff said.
Burke County deputies said they chased Drayton after he tried to rob a convenience store at gunpoint and kidnap an employee. It’s about 145 miles between the house in Inman and the gas station. Wright said Drayton confessed to the killings, telling police that he was high on methamphetamine, hadn't slept for four days and handed over the gun he said he used to kill everyone in the home where he was also staying.
"I don’t have answers as to why. He said some things in his interviews that I’m going to hold on to because his attorney probably needs to process some of this stuff," Wright said. "It’s awful." Drayton is being held in the Burke County jail awaiting extradition.
He will be charged with five counts of murder, authorities said. Records did not list an attorney. James Douglas Drayton, above, was arrested on Oct.
10, 2022, after crashing during a police chase in a car taken from the Inman home where he killed five people. (Burke County Jail via AP)) The killings happened Sunday at a home where people frequently went to use drugs, Wright said. But the sheriff said the fact that the victims were using drugs doesn't mean he will treat the killings any differently.
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