Damion Chavez

New developments have been made with two defendants charged in the homicide of a South Dakota man Friday.

A man wanted in connection with the Friday night shooting death in Fort Dodge was arrested in Georgia Sunday morning, police reported.

A deputy sheriff in Lowndes County, Georgia, stopped a car on Interstate 75 that Damion L. Chavez, 19, was in. He was arrested without incident.

He faces charges of first-degree murder and first-degree robbery in the death of Mohammed Yaqoub, 28, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He awaits extradition in Lowndes County Jail in Valdosta, about 20 miles north of the Florida border.

Two others in the vehicle with Chavez were released after deputies identified them and consulted Fort Dodge police.

A 16-year-old accused of robbing the South Dakota man with Chavez before he was shot has been sent to adult court to face his charge.

Tate Martinson, of Fort Dodge, who was not initially named by the Fort Dodge Police Department as a manhunt began for Chavez, was arrested Saturday morning and charged with first-degree robbery, a Class B felony.

Juveniles charged with crimes classified as forcible felonies are usually referred out of juvenile court to face their charges. Martinson was initially transported to the Central Iowa Detention Center in Eldora to await court proceedings Monday morning.

Chavez and Martinson were arrested following what police say was a drug deal that went wrong on Friday.

Police located the victim after responding to reports of shots fired at 8:05 p.m. Friday in the 1400 block of A Street West, at a brown house behind Tom Thumb. Criminal complaints state that Yaqoub was found sitting in the front passenger seat of a vehicle there.

Police say that information from Martinson indicated the group planned to meet for a drug transaction.

”The area where this happened appears to have no significance other than simply being a place to meet,” said Fort Dodge Police Capt. Ryan Gruenberg, shortly after the incident.

“Based on the evidence obtained and statements made, it was apparent to officers that the defendant or the other party involved in the alleged offense had no method to pay the victim for the controlled substances to be purchased,” Martinson’s criminal complaint says. “The defendant had knowledge that an assault would be committed in order to obtain the controlled substances.”

Paramedics performed life-saving measures on Yaquob, but were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead on the scene. Police reported that he suffered from multiple gunshot wounds.

Police believe Yaqoub was visiting and did not live in the area.