Wrongly convicted in 2012 for murder and cleared in 2021, Lydell Elliott Grant, is again accused of having killed a man on April 6, in Houston in the United States.
He will have to face justice again. Lydell Grant, a 46-year-old man from Houston in the United States, has been accused of murder again since April 6, when he was released from prison in 2021, wrongly convicted of murder.
Indeed, Lydell Grant is accused of having killed Edwin Arevalo, 33, on the evening of April 6, after a collision between two vehicles. According to the statement from the houston police (Texas), the suspect allegedly got out of the car, fatally shot the victim and fled.
A few hours later, Lydell Grant was arrested, charged with murder and taken into custody. He could go out to jail while awaiting trial, if he was able to pay a million dollars.
But before this case, Lydell Elliott Grant experienced eight years of suffering behind bars, for a crime he had not committed. He was convicted in 2012 of killing Aaron Scheerhoorn, 28, when he was stabbed outside a Houston bar.
At the time, six people had testified against him, then known by his rapper name Dello Da Rude. Received a life sentence, he appealed two years later, hoping to win his case thanks to his law studies done in prison.
It took until 2018 for the case to be revived by The Innocent Project, an American non-profit organization founded by one of the lawyers of the famous OJ Simpson, Barry Scheck. Aiming to defend people convicted by mistake, the organization relied on DNA results that did not match the convicted person and not on the statements of witnesses.
Thus, The Innocent Project managed to prove that not only was it not Lydell Grant, but that they had also managed to identify the real murderer thanks to the FBI’s DNA file: Jermárico Carter, a man 41 years old.
Justice then ended up conducting new genetic tests, confirming each discovery. In 2019 finally, Lydell Grant was released on bail and a month later the real killer confessed to the facts. This affair, having caused a great stir in the country, had forced the Houston police to apologize to him.
