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LAKELAND, Fla. - The half-brother of a 14-year-old murder victim has been arrested in the teen’s 2018 shooting death .

The backstory:

On July 3, 2018, the victim’s older brother, Rex Honors III, 21, called police shortly before 4:30 a.m. and reported that he got home late and couldn’t find his younger brother, 14-year-old Rex Honors IV, who went by the name Stuffy.

Honors told police that a table was broken and the sliding glass door to the backyard was opened.

Officers checked the home and found the 14-year-old brother in the backyard, deceased.

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The case went cold but was recently reopened by LPD’s cold case investigators in May.

Gary Gross, a civilian investigator wh

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