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‘Still a killer’ – Texas man, 46, exonerated of murder in 2019 after serving 7 years of a life sentence, faces fresh murder charge after allegedly shooting man dead during Houston road rage incident on Thursday

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Man exonerated two years ago for 2010 murder<&sol;strong>&comma;<strong> accused of shooting man dead during road rage incident in Houston&comma; Texas last week <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Lydell Grant&comma; 46&comma; was arrested for allegedly shooting 33-year-old Edwin Arevalo in a Houston road rage incident that happened on Thursday night <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Surveillance footage from the crash that happened at an intersection helped cops identify Grant as the suspect in the shooting <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He was arrested on Friday on murder charges and held on &dollar;1m bond <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Grant was previously arrested for the stabbing death of 28-year-old Aaron Scheerhoon&comma; for which he was ultimately found innocent<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He was released from prison in 2019&comma; eight years into his life sentence&comma; and was officially exonerated in 2021 <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" style&equals;"font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Jermarico Carter pled guilty to the murder of Scheerhorn in 20221 <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;04&sol;Lydell-Grant-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-436893" width&equals;"769" height&equals;"803"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Lydell Grant&comma; 46&comma; who was released from jail seven years into his sentence&comma; after being wrongfully convicted for a 2010 murder&comma; has been arrested for allegedly shooting a man in a road rage incident in southwest Houston&comma; on Thursday night<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A man who was exonerated for 2010 murder after serving seven years of a life sentence&comma; is facing fresh murder accusations after allegedly&comma; shooting another man dead during a road rage incident following a &&num;8216&semi;minor collision&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>Houston police say Lydell Grant&comma; 46&comma; and an unidentified woman were leaving a corner store on Thursday at around 11&period;50pm when he ran a stop sign&comma; causing a Toyota to hit him&period;<br>Grant then allegedly got out of the car and fired multiple shots through the windshield of the Toyota&comma; before getting back in his car and driving off&period; <br>The driver of the Toyota&comma; 33-year-old Edwin Arevalo&comma; was pronounced dead at the scene&comma; and Grant is now being held on a &dollar;1million bond as he faces murder charges&period;<br>The suspect had previously been released from prison in 2019 for the murder of 28-year-old Aaron Scheerhoon&comma; for which he was ultimately found innocent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;04&sol;Edwin-Arevalos-car-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-436894" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"454"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Houston police say Grant ran a stop sign&comma; causing a Toyota to hit him&period; He then allegedly got out of the car and fired shots at the Toyota&comma; killing 33-year-old Edwin Arevalo<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;04&sol;Cops-on-the-scene-after-Lydell-Grant-shot-Edwin-Arevalo-in-Brentwood-Texas-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-436897" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"459"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Law enforcement at the scene of the shooting near the intersection of Hiram Clarke Road and Brentwood Park Drive in Brentwood&comma; Houston on Thursday night<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">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&period;<br>However&comma; 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&period; <br>He had served seven years of a life sentence when he was freed on bond in 2019 to await the appeals court’s decision&period;<br>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&period; Grant was convicted in 2012&period;<br>But he was released from prison in 2019&comma; nearly eight years into his life sentence&comma; after the Innocence Project of Texas analyzed DNA evidence found on the victim&&num;8217&semi;s fingernails — that did not point to Grant as the perpetrator&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class&equals;"wp-block-embed&lowbar;&lowbar;wrapper">&NewLine;<span class&equals;"embed-youtube" style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi; display&colon; block&semi;"><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"FPlmUClybXI&quest;rel&equals;0&amp&semi;showinfo&equals;1&amp&semi;hl&equals;en-US" data-param-rel&equals;"1" data-param-showsearch&equals;"0" data-param-showinfo&equals;"1" data-param-iv&lowbar;load&lowbar;policy&equals;"1" data-param-fs&equals;"1" data-param-hl&equals;"en-US" data-param-autohide&equals;"2" data-param-wmode&equals;"transparent" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"349" layout&equals;"responsive"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;FPlmUClybXIrel0showinfo1hlen-US" placeholder><amp-img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;FPlmUClybXIrel0showinfo1hlen-US&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" rel&equals;"prettyPhoto"><noscript><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;FPlmUClybXIrel0showinfo1hlen-US&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster"><&sol;noscript><&sol;amp-img><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;span>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Police then arrested Jermarico Carter for Scheerhoorn&&num;8217&semi;s killing&comma; tracking him down in Atlanta&comma; Georgia&comma; where he confessed to the murder&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;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&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said in a statement at the time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;04&sol;image-24&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-436905" width&equals;"838" height&equals;"555"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>In 2022 Jermarico Carter &lbrack;left&rsqb; later confessed to killing Aaron Scheerhoorn &lbrack;right&rsqb;&period; Reexamination of DNA under Scheerhoorn&&num;8217&semi;s fingernails led investigators to the real perpetrator of the crime 10 years earlier<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Grant&&num;8217&semi;s attorney&comma; Mike Ware&comma; who also serves as the executive director of the Innocence Project also said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;We are relieved that Lydell&&num;8217&semi;s wrongful conviction has had this important breakthrough&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>Carter pled guilty to the murder of Scheerhorn in 2022&period; <br>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&comma; and he was arrested on Friday&period;<br>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&period;<br>The last time there were any charges on his criminal record&comma; they argued in court&comma; was in 2009&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;04&sol;Lydell-Grant-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-436898" width&equals;"838" height&equals;"515"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Grant is now being held on a &dollar;1million bond as he faces murder charges after killing <strong>Arevalo<&sol;strong> on Thursday&period; Ironically he was freed on bond in 2019 after a new analysis of DNA found on the victim&&num;8217&semi;s fingernails pointed to his innocence in the 2010 killing of Aaron Scheerhoorn<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;04&sol;image-25&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-436908" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"613"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Grant &lbrack;center&rsqb;&comma; his mother Donna Poe &lbrack;second left&rsqb;&comma; and his brother Alonzo Poe &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; celebrated after he was released in 2019<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A spokesperson for the Innocence Project of Texas&comma; meanwhile&comma; told <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;abc13&period;com&sol;lydell-grant-houston-news-road-roge-shooting-montrose-bar-stabbing&sol;13105811&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">ABC 13<&sol;a> in a statement&colon; &&num;8216&semi;We are saddened by the news of this tragic event and our thoughts and sympathies go out to the victim&&num;8217&semi;s family&period;<br>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&comma; and he was arrested on Friday&period;<br><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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