NFL player's brother, 2nd man jailed in 2016 student slaying
The brother of an NFL player has been arrested along with another man in the 2016 shooting death of a college student
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Your support makes all the difference.Two Florida men, one of them the brother of an NFL player, have been arrested on murder charges in the 2016 shooting death of a college student.
Donterio Rashad Fowler, 25, and Keondre Quamar Fields, 23, were being held without bail Tuesday following their arrests, Pinellas County jail records show.
Fowler is the brother of Atlanta Falcons defensive end Dante Fowler, who played college football at the University of Florida and grew up in St. Petersburg.
Donterio Fowler and Fields are charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 2, 2016, killing of Michael Zaldua, a 21-year-old Florida International University student and freelance photographer, records show.
Fowler and Fields were also college students when Zaldua was killed in a parking garage near FIU, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a news release. Several large bags containing marijuana and a smaller bag of cocaine were found in Zaldua's car. Cash was scattered around his body and a handgun found in his pocket.
Fowler and Fields, both of whom live in Pinellas County, will likely be extradited to Miami to face the charges.
A lawyer for Fowler, Michael Grieco, said his client “has committed no crime” and that he intends to seek his release on bail. It wasn't clear Tuesday if Fields has a lawyer.
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This story has been edited to correct Zaldua's age to 21.