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5th suspect arrested in Sean Taylor murder

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - A 16-year-old was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor last year. Timmy Lee Brown becomes the fifth suspect in the player's death.
Brown is the cousin of co-defendant Charles Wardlow, one of the four men initially arrested in the case last year.
Attorney David Brener, who represented Wardlow in the case until recently, said young adults should take notice of what happened in this case.
"You have to be real careful who you're hanging out with even if you're along for the ride," Brener said.
Brown made his first appearance in court Wednesday before Lee Circuit Judge Joseph Fuller, and he was being held in secure detection awaiting transfer to Miami.
Eric Rivera, 18, Venjah Hunte, 20, and Wardlow, 18, all of Fort Myers, and Jason Mitchell, 20, of Lehigh Acres, face charges of first-degree murder and armed burglary.
On Nov. 26, Miami-Dade police said, the four drove to Taylor's Miami house. When they arrived, they broke into Taylor's house thinking it was unoccupied and intending to burglarize it. But Taylor, 24, was at home with his girlfriend and their child, recovering from a sprained right knee.
The former Pro Bowl safety was shot in the leg and died of blood loss the next day.
Miami-Dade prosecutors have waived the death penalty against the four original suspects. They still face the possibility of life in prison.
Making it difficult for prosecutors to seek death is the theory that Rivera, who was 17 at the time of the crime, was the alleged shooter. Because he was a minor at the time of the crime and ineligible for the death penalty, case law has established the state wouldn't be able to execute his adult co-defendants.