DeLand Police Investigate Double Homicide on West New York Avenue

DeLand officers were dispatched around 10:40 p.m. Wednesday to 213 West New York Ave., where they found two men who had been shot multiple times and were pronounced dead at the scene at 10:48 p.m. The victims were identified as Dustin Rose, 19, and Samson Campbell, 18; Rose was a Citadel student and served in the National Guard, and investigators say the men appeared to know each other. The DeLand Police Criminal Investigations Division is leading an active investigation, clarified the location was a separate industrial property (not the Athens Theatre), and asks anyone with information to contact CID at 386-626-7400.