Man exonerated two years ago for 2010 murder, accused of shooting man dead during road rage incident in Houston, Texas last week

Lydell Grant, 46, was arrested for allegedly shooting 33-year-old Edwin Arevalo in a Houston road rage incident that happened on Thursday night

Surveillance footage from the crash that happened at an intersection helped cops identify Grant as the suspect in the shooting

He was arrested on Friday on murder charges and held on $1m bond

Grant was previously arrested for the stabbing death of 28-year-old Aaron Scheerhoon, for which he was ultimately found innocent

He was released from prison in 2019, eight years into his life sentence, and was officially exonerated in 2021

Jermarico Carter pled guilty to the murder of Scheerhorn in 20221 

Lydell Grant, 46, who was released from jail seven years into his sentence, after being wrongfully convicted for a 2010 murder, has been arrested for allegedly shooting a man in a road rage incident in southwest Houston, on Thursday night

A man who was exonerated for 2010 murder after serving seven years of a life sentence, is facing fresh murder accusations after allegedly, shooting another man dead during a road rage incident following a ‘minor collision.’
Houston police say Lydell Grant, 46, and an unidentified woman were leaving a corner store on Thursday at around 11.50pm when he ran a stop sign, causing a Toyota to hit him.
Grant then allegedly got out of the car and fired multiple shots through the windshield of the Toyota, before getting back in his car and driving off. 
The driver of the Toyota, 33-year-old Edwin Arevalo, was pronounced dead at the scene, and Grant is now being held on a $1million bond as he faces murder charges.
The suspect had previously been released from prison in 2019 for the murder of 28-year-old Aaron Scheerhoon, for which he was ultimately found innocent.

Houston police say Grant ran a stop sign, causing a Toyota to hit him. He then allegedly got out of the car and fired shots at the Toyota, killing 33-year-old Edwin Arevalo

Law enforcement at the scene of the shooting near the intersection of Hiram Clarke Road and Brentwood Park Drive in Brentwood, Houston on Thursday night

Grant was convicted in 2012 of stabbing Scheerhoorn outside a Montrose bar after six eyewitnesses to the stabbing two years earlier positively identified him as the attacker and testified against him in court.
However, he was declared innocent in May 2021 by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after a new analysis of DNA found on the victim’s fingernails pointed to Grant’s innocence.
He had served seven years of a life sentence when he was freed on bond in 2019 to await the appeals court’s decision.
At his trial police said Scheerhoorn was turned away from the club and witnesses at the time told investigators they saw Grant stab him several more times before fleeing. Grant was convicted in 2012.
But he was released from prison in 2019, nearly eight years into his life sentence, after the Innocence Project of Texas analyzed DNA evidence found on the victim’s fingernails — that did not point to Grant as the perpetrator.

Police then arrested Jermarico Carter for Scheerhoorn’s killing, tracking him down in Atlanta, Georgia, where he confessed to the murder.
‘The highest responsibility of a prosecutor is to see that justice is done and insuring that we have the correct individual charged is a baseline responsibility,’ Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said in a statement at the time.

In 2022 Jermarico Carter [left] later confessed to killing Aaron Scheerhoorn [right]. Reexamination of DNA under Scheerhoorn’s fingernails led investigators to the real perpetrator of the crime 10 years earlier

Grant’s attorney, Mike Ware, who also serves as the executive director of the Innocence Project also said: ‘We are relieved that Lydell’s wrongful conviction has had this important breakthrough.’
Carter pled guilty to the murder of Scheerhorn in 2022. 
But investigators now say surveillance footage from the crash near the intersection of Hiram Clarke Road and Brentwood Park Drive helped them identify Grant as the suspect in the shooting, and he was arrested on Friday.
His defense is now arguing that Grant has been running his own home cleaning business for the last six months and is helping to support his mother.
The last time there were any charges on his criminal record, they argued in court, was in 2009.

Grant is now being held on a $1million bond as he faces murder charges after killing Arevalo on Thursday. Ironically he was freed on bond in 2019 after a new analysis of DNA found on the victim’s fingernails pointed to his innocence in the 2010 killing of Aaron Scheerhoorn

Grant [center], his mother Donna Poe [second left], and his brother Alonzo Poe [right], celebrated after he was released in 2019

A spokesperson for the Innocence Project of Texas, meanwhile, told ABC 13 in a statement: ‘We are saddened by the news of this tragic event and our thoughts and sympathies go out to the victim’s family.
But investigators now say surveillance footage from the crash near the intersection of Hiram Clarke Road and Brentwood Park Drive helped them identify Grant as the suspect in the shooting, and he was arrested on Friday.