Sheriff: Man Who Killed 5 Was High, Hadn’t Slept for 4 Days

Sheriff: Man Who Killed 5 Was High, Hadn’t Slept for 4 Days
James Douglas Drayton. Burke County Jail via AP
The Associated Press
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COLUMBIA, S.C.—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.