EASLEY — After a 36-hour day-and-night investigation following the discovery of a woman’s body Sunday morning at a boat ramp near Easley, a 22-year-old Greenville man is behind bars and charged with her murder.

Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark announced during a called news conference Tuesday morning that Kasey Clayton Waldrop, of 220 Waverly Drive, was charged with murder and possession of a weapon during commission of a violent crime in the death of 35-year-old Reza Farah Kahn of Townville.

“It is hard to believe that a life can be taken by some of the evil we see today in our society,” Clark said, adding that Kahn was a mother of four. “Our prayer, thoughts and hopes for her children are with the Kahn family. We are going to do everything we can to support them during this awful event.”

Two men who had gone to launch a boat on Saluda Lake discovered Kahn’s body on a dock at the boat ramp on Buckskin Road shortly before 9 a.m. on Sunday, according to police.

Clark said evidence suggested that Kahn was driven to the boat ramp and killed there.

“We want to stress we feel there is no threat to the community anywhere around Saluda or anywhere around Pickens County,” Clark said. “We believe we have arrested all the actors in this.”

Sheriff’s office detectives received information that Kahn’s 2014 Dodge Charger was parked at an apartment complex in West Greenville on Monday evening, and when officers traveled to recover the vehicle, Waldrop was arrested after a short foot pursuit at around 7:30 p.m.

Clark said a gun that matched the caliber of the weapon used to kill Kahn was found in the vehicle, which was partially spray painted to try to cover up evidence, the sheriff said.

Waldrop was initially arrested on weapons charges and held overnight at the Greenville County Detention Center, according to a sheriff’s office news release.

Waldrop was also charged with grand larceny, as detectives had evidence that Waldrop kept and continued to drive Kahn’s vehicle for several hours after the shooting.

Police said a motive has not been determined in the killing, although Clark said Waldrop and Kahn knew each other and were friends.

The case is still under investigation, as detectives are continuing to interview friends and acquaintances of Waldrop and Kahn.

“We are still pursuing some other charges on a couple of other people,” Clark said.

Waldrop, who was out on bond for a 2015 Pickens County grand larceny charge at the time of the killing, waived a bond hearing on Tuesday afternoon. He was transported back to Greenville County to face charges there, and will be transported back to Pickens County to answer to the murder charges upon his release in Greenville.

Clark credited the hard work of his officers — including a newly created three-man homicide team — with making a timely arrest in Kahn’s killing.

“Over the past 36 hours our detectives did what had to be done to protect our citizens,” he said. “It all comes down to quality of people, and we have great people here at the sheriff’s office.

“We still have a lot of work to do to wrap it up and make a good case for our solicitor, and we are working together for them as well.”