The brother of Atlanta Falcons linebacker Dante Fowler has been charged with first-degree murder for the 2016 killing of a Florida International University student in a campus parking lot.
Donterio Fowler, 26, and Keondre Fields, 23, are accused of shooting dead 21-year-old Michael Zaldua at point-blank range inside the 4th Street Commons apartment complex at the school's Modesto Maidique campus at 11pm on December 2, 2016, in a suspected drug deal gone wrong.
Zaldua's body was discovered after the shooting surrounded by cash with a gun in his pocket, a loaded Glock magazine nearby and 'several large ziplock bags of marijuana and a small ziplock bag of cocaine' in the victim's car, according to Local 10.
Keondre Fields, 23, (pictured left) and Donterio Fowler, 26, (pictured right) have been charged with first degree murder for the unsolved shooting of FIU student Michael Zaldua, 21, in a school housing complex parking lot
Michael Zaldua, 21, was shot at point-blank range at the school's Modesto Maidique campus on December 2, 2016
A tire impression in Zaldua's blood was also found at the scene - according to the Miami Dade Police Department.
A cold case team working on the five-year-old case were able to match the tire impression to the bottom of Fowler's 2014 black Dodge Charger. Blood was also discovered on the vehicle, which spurred a warrant for Fowler's arrest.
Donterio Fowler is the brother of NFL star Dante Fowler
The suspects were both students at ASA College in Hialeah at the time of the shooting, according to the Miami Herald, and lived in Pinellas County. Now, the two have been booked in a Pinellas County prison to be extradited to await their trial in Miami Dade.
'We are anxiously awaiting young Donterio's transfer to Miami so we can secure his swift release,' said Fowler's attorney, Michael
