Overview
- Court records show an aggregate 93-year sentence with suspended time reducing the term to 58 years to be served.
- The breakdown includes 40 years for second-degree murder, 20 years for aggravated malicious wounding with 15 suspended, and two 10-year terms fully suspended for attempted first-degree murder and firing into an occupied building.
- Police say the August 9, 2023 shooting on Artis Street in Franklin followed an argument, injuring an adult man who survived and killing 10-year-old La’Marj Holden.
- After a months-long, multi-state search, U.S. Marshals arrested Drayton on June 18, 2024 at Brookside Square Apartments in Boykins, where federal authorities say a relative had been harboring her.
- Prosecutors originally charged first-degree murder before the plea to second-degree murder, and officials credited coordination between Franklin police and the U.S. Marshals Service.