Updated
Updated · WESH 2 Orlando · Aug 8
Affidavit Says 17-Year-Old Shot 2 Men in DeLand Drug Deal Robbery, Father Held at $100,000
Updated
Updated · WESH 2 Orlando · Aug 8

Affidavit Says 17-Year-Old Shot 2 Men in DeLand Drug Deal Robbery, Father Held at $100,000

3 articles · Updated · WESH 2 Orlando · Aug 8

Summary

  • A newly public affidavit says 17-year-old Keyan Rundell told witnesses he shot 19-year-old Dustin Rose and 18-year-old Samson Campbell after they allegedly tried to rob him during a marijuana sale behind DeLand’s Athens Theatre.
  • Surveillance and witness accounts outlined in the filing place Rundell on an e-bike at the scene, then show him wiping his face, spitting, and later pouring milk on his face—behavior investigators say was consistent with being pepper-sprayed.
  • Police said the victims were found with a loaded 9mm handgun, pepper spray and a bag testing presumptively positive for cannabis, while a witness told detectives Rundell said one teen had a gun and the other tried to spray him.
  • Daytron Etkins, 41, Rundell’s father, was arrested Friday on an accessory-after-the-fact charge; police say he helped burn clothing, blocked a camera with a patio umbrella and later returned to retrieve the gun. His bond was set at $100,000.
  • Rundell, arrested Wednesday in Manatee County and extradited to Volusia County, faces two second-degree murder counts and was ordered held in juvenile custody for 21 days pending further proceedings.

Insights

With police hinting at more arrests, who else is hiding in the shadows of this botched theater alley drug deal?
If the victims initiated the ambush with pepper spray, will a 17-year-old's lethal retaliation be considered self-defense or murder?
Could a father’s desperate attempt to destroy evidence actually be the key to unraveling a deadly teenage drug robbery?