December 3, 2009

AIKEN COUNTY SC.-- Investigators have arrested an Aiken man in connection to a homicide on November 25th on Green Road.
23 year old Christopher Anthony Knight is charged with accessory after the fact to a murder.

On Wednesday November 25th around 6pm Aiken County Investigators were called after a driver saw a body laying on the side of the road. The victim, Donald Hickman was suffering from several gunshot wounds and died shortly after he was brought to the hospital.

Deputies tell News 12 that Knight helped one of the three suspects already charged in Mr. Hickman's murder, and that Knight knew that one of those suspects had killed Hickman.

Derrick Valentine, Kristopher Allard Reichardt, and Michael Smith Jr. were arrested and all charged with murder in this case. They are currently being held in the Aiken County Detention Center.
Christopher Knight has been released on a 30,000.00 bond.