Man Arrested For Quintuple Homicide In Spartanburg County

(Spartanburg County, SC)-- A man is in custody in connection to a Spartanburg County shooting that claimed five lives Sunday. 

Officials have arrested 49-year-old James Derek Baldwin for what the Spartanburg County Sheriff says was the largest single murder ever seen in the county. 

Baldwin is charged with five counts of murder and four counts of possession of a weapon during a violent crime. 

Authorities say Baldwin told them he was using methamphetamine and hadn't slept in four days at the time of the shooting.


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