http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-man-cleared-17-years-prison-shot-dead-183844979.html
Not to disparage the man, but it really didn't just "happen", he was involved in the act of buying drugs when it happened.
A Chicago man who served 17 years in prison for murder before being cleared of the crime has been shot and killed almost three years after being released from prison, police said Wednesday.
Alprentiss Nash, 40, was fatally shot Tuesday after an argument during "a drug deal gone bad" between Nash and his attacker, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. He said a suspect was in custody and charges were pending Wednesday afternoon.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said Nash died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Nash was convicted in the 1995 murder of Leon Stroud on Chicago's South Side, based on witness testimony, though he always professed his innocence. In 1997, he was sentenced to 80 years in prison.
He was released in August 2012 after DNA tests on a ski mask recovered from the scene matched the genetic profile of another man.
Nash later received a certificate of innocence and a settlement of more than $200,000 from the state. A federal civil rights case pending against the city of Chicago and the police department will continue on behalf of Nash's 22-year-old son, said attorney Kathleen Zellner, who helped free Nash.
"He really just wanted to disappear and get out of here," because he was afraid he was being targeted for money, Zellner said.
"He jumped all those hurdles and then this happened," she said.
Not to disparage the man, but it really didn't just "happen", he was involved in the act of buying drugs when it happened.
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