Overview
- Two teenagers, 19-year-old Dustin Rose and 18-year-old Samson Campbell, were found shot to death in a vacant lot behind the Athens Theatre in downtown DeLand and police say the deaths are under active homicide investigation.
- Investigators released a surveillance image showing the two together the evening before they were found and are using that footage to develop leads.
- Law enforcement executed a search warrant at a DeLand residence with help from the Volusia County SWAT team and the FBI Safe Streets Task Force as part of an intensified evidence-gathering phase.
- Detectives are working around the clock, police have increased downtown patrols to reassure the community, and authorities are urging anyone with tips to contact the DeLand Police Department.
- No suspect has been publicly identified and no motive has been determined, and the victims’ families say the two were childhood friends with Rose recently enrolled at The Citadel and the South Carolina Army National Guard.