Damion Lamont Chavez

Damion Lamont Chavez, 19, identified as formerly Tama area, faces charges of 1st degree murder and 1st degree robbery. The Ft. Dodge Messenger reported a deputy sheriff in Lowndes County, Ga., stopped a car on Interstate 75 that. Chavez, 19, was in. He was arrested without incident on Sunday, Oct. 13.

Chavez had attended South Tama schools.

He faces the charges 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, The Messenger story says. Chavez was being sought since the Friday night, Oct. 11, incident.

Along with a 16-year-old, Chavez were arrested following what police say was a drug deal that went wrong The Messenger reports.

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, Fort Dodge, who was not initially named by the Fort Dodge Police Department as a manhunt began for Chavez, was arrested Saturday morning and also 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.