After a six-minute police chase early Saturday morning, Sioux Falls Police arrested 21-year-old David Amotun, who was wanted in connection to the death of 18-year-old Brandy Jean Cotton of Watertown.  

Right now, the Watertown death is being investigated as a homicide. This after police say Cotton was found dead in her grandmother's home at 603 1st Avenue NW in Watertown Friday morning. After discovering the body, police established Amotun as a "person of interest," but he was no where to be found.

Police say tips alerted them that Amotun could be in Sioux Falls.

Then early Saturday morning, Sioux Falls Police spotted Amotun driving around the city in a stolen Chevy pickup. Officers say they tried stopping him, but he took off. A chase ensued and a short time later, Amotun was arrested for grand theft.

Back in Watertown Saturday, Allan Spilde lives just down the road from where the homicide happened. Like others in this neighborhood, he says it's scary to think the suspect was at-large. He said, " Where is the person, you know? They could have been anywhere, you know?"

People are relieved to hear authorities have arrested a suspect. Yet it seems they can't believe a homicide actually happened here. Watertown Police say their last murder investigation was more than ten years ago.

Nancy Eck owns a craft store downtown, where she and Coni Stricherz couldn't remember the last murder in Watertown.

"I was really shocked," said Stricherz of Friday's homicide. She and Eck say they're really sad the victim was just 18-years-old. "I guess you think, you know, a person is so young, they have their whole life ahead of them."

Neither Stricherz nor Eck knew Cotton, but that doesn't stop them from grieving over her death. Eck said, "Sad. Just really sad, you know, that it all goes, I mean you can disappear just like that."

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