19-Year-Old Idaho Man Claimed He Watched His Roommate Commit Suicide — Now He's Charged with Murder

Dakota Honeycutt.Photo: Ada County Sheriff’s Office

Dakota Travis Honeycutt of Nampa is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Kevin Hunt, 48, also of Nampa, online court records show.

Honeycutt is also charged with felony counts of grand theft and destruction of evidence in connection with the case.

Honeycutt was initially charged with assisting a suicide, the Ada County Sheriff’s Office says in a release.

“Prosecutors changed the charge after investigators collected more evidence in the case that showed Honeycutt planned the killing and did it with a shotgun that wasn’t his,” the sheriff’s office says in the release.

“Investigators quickly determined Hunt died from a gunshot wound,” states the release.

Investigators closed off the area and began an intensive search.

“Investigators eventually determined Honeycutt was living at Hunt’s Nampa-area apartment and might be driving Hunt’s car,” the sheriff’s office says in the release.

Honeycutt told investigators “he drove Hunt to Hunter’s Creek Park on Dec. 25, watched Hunt shoot himself around 9 p.m., left the body there, took the shotgun, and threw it in the Boise River before going back to the Nampa apartment later that night,” according to the release.

Police arrested Honeycutt on Dec. 26.

On Dec. 27, the Ada County Sheriff’s Dive Team found the shotgun in the Boise River.

“Investigators determined a short time later Honeycutt actually did the shooting,” the release says.

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It is unclear why the men were at Hunter’s Creek Park, since they both lived in Nampa and do not appear to have any ties to Star.

No details have been released on a possible motive.

Honeycutt is being held in the Ada County jail on $50,000 bail.

He is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on Jan. 31.

His attorney did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

source: people.com