Formal charges in Seneca area homicide

Oconee Sheriff’s Office announces charges filed in the shooting of a 48-year old man early yesterday near Seneca.  The victim was Aaron Parrish Putnam.  A 26-year old man, Wayne Austin Raffaldt, was arrested at the Singing Pines Road scene and is now charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.  Officers are ascribing family trouble as the circumstances for Putnam’s death.