A Texas man who was exonerated of a 2021 murder after serving seven years in jail has been re-arrested and charged with fatally shooting the driver of a vehicle, police said.
Lydell Grant, 46, is accused of killing Edwin Arevalo, 33, after a minor crash involving the two on Thursday night, Houston police said.
According to the report, Grant got out of his car, shot Aravelo and fled.
Grant was taken into custody Friday, police said.
He was still in jail this Sunday after being set on
$1 million bail
.
The AP news agency was unable to reach his attorney for comment.
Lydell Grant, a Houston man accused of killing another driver on the streetHouston Police Department / AP
In 2012, Grant was found guilty of the death of 28-year-old Aaron Scheerhoorn, who was stabbed outside a Houston bar in 2010. Six witnesses testified against him.
But Grant was exonerated in May 2021 by an appeals court after it was determined that DNA found on the victim's fingernails pointed to his innocence.
Since 2019, he has been free, awaiting the decision of said court, after having served seven years of a life sentence.
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In 2019, police arrested Jermarico Carter in Scheerhoorn's death.
Carter, who was found in Atlanta, confessed to being the killer.
He pleaded guilty in 2022 and was taken to jail.
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Grant was convicted despite having a witness confirm his alibi at trial.
Those close to him criticized the jurors, saying they were influenced by the prosecution's faulty DNA analysis and by unreliable eyewitnesses who believed he was the black man suspected of the crime.
In May 2021, when he was released from prison, it was reported that Grant was entitled to compensation for being wrongfully imprisoned.
In Texas, that compensation amounts to $80,000 for each year in jail, plus the possibility of monthly payments for the rest of the wrongfully convicted person's life.
At the time Grant said that he would seek to expunge his record of the crime.
With information from
AP
and
NBC News
.
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