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Updated · FOX 35 Orlando · Aug 7

Keyan Rundell Charged in 2 DeLand Killings as Police Tie Shootings to Drug Deal Robbery

Updated

Updated · FOX 35 Orlando · Aug 7

Keyan Rundell Charged in 2 DeLand Killings as Police Tie Shootings to Drug Deal Robbery

Q: Are there more accomplices hiding in the shadows who helped cover up the fatal shooting of two young men?

Yes—police are openly treating the case as one that could involve more than the father already charged, but they have not announced any additional suspects by name. What is established so far is that Daytron W. Etkins, the father of 17-year-old Keyan Rundell, has been arrested on a felony accessory-after-the-fact charge. Investigators say he helped his son after the killings by concealing evidence, including allegedly burning clothing and other items behind his residence, and by helping retrieve the gun. Police also say Rundell was later found at a motel in Ellenton, in Manatee County, and they still do not know publicly how he got there. That gap is one reason authorities have signaled more arrests are possible. DeLand Police Chief Jason Umberger said investigators are examining whether anyone else planned, aided or otherwise assisted in the crime, helped destroy or hide evidence, helped Rundell flee, or harbored him while he was being sought. There are also references in court materials to witnesses and people who were in contact with Rundell after the shootings, but nothing in the reporting confirms that any of them committed a crime. Being a witness or hearing an account after the fact is not the same as being an accomplice. So the answer is that investigators suspect there may have been other helpers, and the case remains active, but at this point only Rundell and his father have been publicly charged.

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A 14-page police report says Keyan Rundell, 17, allegedly shot Dustin Rose, 19, and Samson Campbell, 18, after a downtown DeLand marijuana deal turned into an attempted robbery.
Two confidential sources told investigators the teens planned to rob Rundell at a vacant lot, with one carrying pepper spray and the other a gun; police said one teen demanded money before Rundell opened fire.
Daytron Etkins, 41, Rundell’s father, was arrested on an accessory-after-the-fact charge after police said he retrieved the gun and was caught on home surveillance video burning clothing on a grill.
Etkins is due before a judge Saturday, while Rundell still faces two counts of second-degree murder in a case that has sharpened focus on how a planned drug purchase escalated into a double homicide.