Arrest alleges murder in Pickens County

An arrest on the charge of murder in Pickens County….The charges of murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime are placed against a 27-year old Liberty woman.  According to the sheriff’s office, Nicole Michelle Heape was charged in the investigation of the shooting death Monday of Kennedy David Drayton.  Thirty-one year old Drayton was found in the hallway of a Moorefield Memorial Highway home.  Arrest warrants allege the murder weapon was a .45-caliber gun and the probable cause as the gun seizure, photographs and an interview with the defendant.