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This undated booking photo, provided by the Pinellas County, Florida Sheriff’s Office, shows Keondre Quamar Fields. Fields and Donterio Rashad Fowler were arrested for murder while shooting a college student in 2016. Pinellas County Prison records show the couple was held without bail on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 following their arrest. (Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
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This undated booking photo, provided by the Pinellas County, Florida Sheriff’s Office, shows Keondre Quamar Fields. Fields and Donterio Rashad Fowler were arrested for murder while shooting a college student in 2016. Pinellas County Prison records show the couple was held without bail on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 following their arrest. (Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
NS. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) – Two Florida men, one of whom is the brother of an NFL player, were arrested for murder in the 2016 college student shooting.
Donterio Rashad Fowler, 25, and Keondre Quamar Fields, 23, were held on Tuesday after their arrest without bail, according to Pinellas County prison records.
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 on December 2, 2016, with the first degree murder in which Michael Zaldua, a 21-year-old Florida International University student and freelance photographer, was killed.
Fowler and Fields were also college students when Zaldua was killed in a parking garage near the FIU, Miami-Dade prosecutor Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a press release. Several large bags of marijuana and a smaller bag of cocaine were found in Zaldua’s car. Cash was scattered around his body and a pistol was found in his pocket.
Fowler and Fields, who both live in Pinellas County, are likely to be extradited to Miami to face the charges.
A Fowler attorney, Michael Grieco, said his client “did not commit a crime” and that he intends to seek his bail release. It wasn’t clear Tuesday if Fields had a lawyer.
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This story was edited to correct Zaldua’s age to 21.
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