After ripping open a tightly taped baggie and finding 1.5 ounces of various kitchen spices, Seth Carreras entered his drug dealer’s home, tracked Hunter Woodson to his bedroom, shot him multiple times and then rifled through his pockets for money.

That’s according to a recently unsealed search warrant affidavit that includes a recounting of the slaying from Woodson’s 17-year-old girlfriend, who watched the shooting.

Carreras then fled the Sunset house and returned to his home in Layton, where police arrested him within 22 minutes of the shooting.

The 17-year-old has been charged, as an adult, with murder, a first-degree felony. A bail hearing in 2nd District Court is scheduled for Friday.

Carreras and the 19-year-old Woodson were messaging each other about Woodson selling Carreras marijuana Nov. 21, the girlfriend told police.

Carreras wanted 1.5 ounces of the drug, but Woodson didn’t have that much. He told Carreras he could facilitate the sale anyway. Carreras came to the Sunset home at 12:30 p.m., according to the affidavit, and the two smoked a joint so Carreras could test the product.

But Carreras didn’t have money on his person and went home. The two kept messaging and agreed upon a price of $260 for the drug, but Carreras eventually said he only had $121. Woodson agreed to the sale anyway.

When Carreras returned, Woodson had his girlfriend go outside the home and collect the money while he poured paprika, salt, pepper and other spices into a pink bag and taped it up, the affidavit states.

The girlfriend brought the money in and took the fake drugs to Carreras. Carreras felt the bag and realized something was off. He opened the bag, and the girlfriend went back into the house to warn Woodson.

Carreras followed her into Woodson’s bedroom. Woodson had his girlfriend hide behind the door, she told police, while he took a fighting stance to confront Carreras.

When Carreras entered the room, the girlfriend could see that he had a gun. Woodson said something to the effect of, “What are you going to do about it, shoot me?” At that point, Carreras fired a 9 mm handgun “a lot of times” and Woodson fell to the ground.

Carreras walked forward and stood over Woodson, the girlfriend told police, and continued to shoot. As the girlfriend ran out of the room, she saw Carreras going through Woodson’s pockets for money, she told police.

The girlfriend called police, who quickly found Carreras at his home in Layton, where they saw him trying to crawl under a car.

Police searched a shed on the property and found “hundreds” of bottles of pills on a shelf in the shed, as well as scales and “marijuana shake” on the floor. Between the shed and the cars in the driveway, police also found knives, guns, ammunition and two machetes — one in the shed and one in a car, the search warrant states.

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