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In the winter of 2014, 19-year-old Isaiah Orantes was found dead on a canal bank near 47th Avenue and Cholla Street in Phoenix. The Hispanic male was discovered the night of January 7 and investigators determined he had been fatally shot.

Police say the killing appears to have stemmed from an illicit drug transaction. Detectives identified a primary suspect in the days after the discovery and arrested 20-year-old Robert Patrick Nicolai, booking him into the Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder.

The investigation described a meeting arranged between Orantes and Nicolai for a drug deal that escalated into deadly violence. Does anyone have information about Isaiah, where he spent time that winter, or about the meeting that led to his death?