A sheriff’s official said the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy on New Year’s Eve was the result of a drug deal gone bad.
Keanu Deano Castaneda, 19, met 17-year-old Carlos Sandoval at a home in the 2000 block of North Forty Niners Drive around 5 p.m. to purchase an unknown amount of marijuana, said Deputy Dawn Barkman, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman in a news release.
Deputies said the teens knew each other through mutual friends and Sandoval had asked friends to accompany him to provide security during the drug deal, the release said.
Castaneda robbed the drugs from Sandoval, the release said. During the robbery, Sandoval was shot, the release said.Â
Sandoval was pronounced dead at the scene.
Castaneda allegedly fled with several others in a car and was chased by someone who was in the home, the release said.
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Shots were fired from the car Castaneda was in toward the chasing car in the 12100 block of East Barbary Coast, but nobody was hurt in that incident, the release said.
The car Castaneda was in was stopped a short time later and he was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder and was booked into Pima County Jail, the release said.
