CAMDEN, S.C. (AP) -- 23-year-old Nickolas Miller has been charged in the death of a woman authorities say was abducted from a Chesterfield County store and beaten to death in a random attack.
Kershaw County Sheriff Jim Matthews says 30-year-old Beverly Hope Melton was abducted after leaving a convenience store Monday afternoon.
Matthews says Melton was assaulted and driven to Kershaw County, where she was beaten to death with a baseball bat.
Matthews says store surveillance video shows a man harassing the woman. Matthews says authorities used that video to identify a suspect and stopped him near Jefferson. Matthews says Miller confessed and told authorities where to find the woman's body.
Nickolas Miller was being held Tuesday on a murder charge.
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