CHARLESTON -- More people are facing drug charges in connection with a fatal Goose Creek apartment fire that killed three people.
Berkeley County authorities say Alberta Pierson and Michael Still have been charged with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. Pierson was also charged with unlawful conduct toward a child.
Thirty-nine-year-old Shonni Segrest Abernathy and 33-year-old Jerald Edward McCabe have been charged with trying to make methamphetamine and exposing a child to materials used to make the drug.
Nineteen-year-old Morgan Abernathy was killed in the May 31 fire. She was Still's fiancie and Pierson's daughter.
A 69-year-old man and a 4-year-old boy were also killed.
Investigators found evidence of a meth lab in the rubble but the cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
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Berkeley County authorities say Alberta Pierson and Michael Still have been charged with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. Pierson was also charged with unlawful conduct toward a child.
Thirty-nine-year-old Shonni Segrest Abernathy and 33-year-old Jerald Edward McCabe have been charged with trying to make methamphetamine and exposing a child to materials used to make the drug.
Nineteen-year-old Morgan Abernathy was killed in the May 31 fire. She was Still's fiancie and Pierson's daughter.
A 69-year-old man and a 4-year-old boy were also killed.
Investigators found evidence of a meth lab in the rubble but the cause of the fire has not yet been determined.