CINCINNATI — Four men have been charged in connection with the 2016 shooting death of Kareem Howell after Hamilton County prosecutors said "new technology" led to a break in the case nine years later.

Darius Holley, Charlie Dailey, Romello Wheeler and Brandon Webster were all indicted Thursday on charges of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, two counts of felonious assault and aggravated robbery.

Prosecutors said Dailey and Holley walked Howell into the woods behind a Westwood apartment complex at the end of Bracken Woods Lane, held him at gunpoint, then shot him in January 2016. He later died at the hospital.

The Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office told us Howell had been involved in two home invasion robberies, one involving Webster's mother.

The robbery, the office said, pro

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