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Funeral March

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Donovan Lightbourn is eight years younger, 5 inches taller and 60 pounds heavier than accused murderer Kareem Lightbourne. He also wears his hair in dreadlocks, while Kareem reportedly favors short hair. But detectives at Florida?s Broward County Sheriff's Office still thought the two men looked alike. That and a tip to a Crime Stoppers hotline is why they arrested Donovan Lightbourn while he was attending his grandmother's funeral. Witnesses said the grandmother had just been lowered into the ground when detectives stormed the gravesite, grabbing Lightbourn, handcuffing him and shoving him into a sheriff's vehicle. The sheriff's office says it released Lightbourn as soon as officers figured out he wasn't the man they were looking for.