Lydell Grant has been exonerated of a crime before, but new reports show that he was once again charged with murder in Houston, but this time he was on camera.
Grant was exonerated in 2019 with the help of the Innocence Project of Texas for a crime he did not commit. However, he was arrested again on April 9, 2023, accused of killing someone in a road rage incident, ABC Houston reported.
Sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for the fatal stabbing of Aaron Scheerhoorn outside a bar within the Houston area in 2010, Grant was freed after DNA and a confession for the real killer emerged.
In 2018, DNA evidence was retested and found to exclude Grant as the perpetrator. Instead, the DNA pointed to another man, who was subsequently charged with the murder.
After the new DNA evidence was discovered, Grant’s case was taken up by the Innocence Project, which fought for his release.
He served about eight years in prison and was freed with the help of the Innocence Project of Texas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exonerating the wrongfully convicted in Texas and advocating for criminal justice reform.
Grant is currently behind bars for the shooting death of 33-year-old Edwin Arevalo, who died at the scene.
Houston police say the suspect and a woman were struck by a Toyota after Grant ran a stop sign while leaving a convenience store. Grant, who was allegedly caught on surveillance video, got out of his vehicle and fired shots through Arevalo’s windshield.
Grant got back into his car and left the scene.
From his prior imprisonment, the Texas is order to pay Grant nearly 673,000 for the eight years he served. The state pays him on an annuel basis and will continue to while he is locked in jail. However, if found guilty of shooting Arevalo, Grant would lose his massive payout because Texas would not be oligated.
Texas is one of the top states in the U.S. for aggressive driving, with approximately 80 percent of drivers in the state admitting to some form of aggressive driving in the past year.
