Lydell Grant Texas man exonerated in fatal stabbing after serving eight years of a life sentence before release, arrested in deadly in road rage shooting of Edwin Arevalo.
A Texas man previously exonerated in a fatal stabbing after serving eight years of a life sentence was on Thursday arrested for allegedly shooting a motorist dead during a Houston road rage shooting incident.
Lydell Elliott Grant was taken into custody Friday for allegedly shooting another driver dead after they got into a minor traffic accident, cops said.
Lydell Grant, 46, and a woman were leaving a corner store in a white Lexus sedan when they ran a stop sign and were hit by a Toyota, ABC 13 reported.
Grant then stepped out of the car and allegedly fired at the 33-year-old Toyota driver, Edwin Arevalo, before fleeing in the Lexus.
Arevalo was killed upon being shot at least five times, police said, according to KHOU.
‘Being locked up, if I didn’t learn anything else, is to have patience.’
The fatal shooting comes after Grant having spent eight years behind bars after it was determined he had been ‘wrongly’ convicted of stabbing 28-year-old Aaron Scheerhoorn to death outside a Houston bar in 2012.
Grant was initially found guilty after six witnesses testified against him at trial, but was declared innocent in May 2021 by a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after DNA on the victim’s fingernails didn’t match his.
He was serving a life sentence for the crime before he was let out on bond in 2019 to await the appeals court’s decision.
Reflected Grant following his 2021 release: ‘Being locked up, if I didn’t learn anything else, is to have patience.’
Police arrested Jermarico Carter for Scheerhoorn’s killing in 2019 after the new suspect confessed to the crime.
He pleaded guilty to murder and is in prison.
Grant was identified in Thursday’s shooting death after investigators reviewed surveillance video, ABC 13 reported.
His bond was set for $1 million.
The Innocence Project of Texas, which helped free Grant a few years ago, said it could not comment on the current case.
‘We are saddened by the news of this tragic event and our thoughts and sympathies go out to the victim’s family,’ the organization said. ‘As this is an ongoing investigation, we cannot comment on the specifics of this incident. We stand behind Mr. Grant’s previous exoneration, which was granted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.’
