The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a man after a teenager turned himself in to authorities.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, on December 26, a 16-year-old boy arrived at the Eastern Substation and told the sheriff he wanted to appear on charges of “killing a man.”

A YCSO statement said the teenager told the YCSO that he shot and left a 62-year-old man in the wilderness around November 28 in a remote area of ​​Camp Verde.

YCSO detectives say they were called to interview the teenager. The teenagers then took them to the site of the bodies in the desert off the Salt Mine Road.

The teenager told detectives that the older man was a family friend. . According to authorities, the 16-year-old boy wanted to confront the man and asked him to pick him up at Camp Verde for a hunting trip.The two drove onto his main road in Salt. The teenager then confronted the man and opened fire to kill him.

Detectives said the boy took all the guns out of the car before abandoning it. On the way home he dumped his one of the guns in the desert. This he later recovered by the YCSO. He then took the rest of the guns back to his home.

Detectives say it was Christmas Day when the family confronted the teen about the gun. The next day he turned himself in and was taken into custody.