Daily News | Man, 62, exonerated in murder cases after 3 decades in prison, fatally shot in North Philly
Christopher Williams, a 62-year-old man who was exonerated in multiple murder cases after serving three decades in prison, was fatally shot Friday afternoon in North Philadelphia, police said.
Shortly before 2:20 p.m., Williams was on the 3000 block of Lehigh Avenue when he was shot once in the head. Police rushed him to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:47 p.m.after a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge tossed a final murder conviction based on evidence of prosecutorial misconduct brought forth by the District Attorney’s Office.
Williams and another man, Theophalis “Bilal” Wilson, had been charged in a 1989 triple murder. Williams, who was 29 at the time, was charged with six murders in total. He spent 25 years of his sentence on death row. Judge Tracy Brandeis-Roman agreed to toss out the sixth and final murder, the shooting of 19-year-old Michael Haynesworth in 1989.
“Never in the history of the Pennsylvania judicial system has someone been charged with six murders, acquitted of two and now exonerated of four,” Williams said afterward.The District Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit reviewed his case and reportedly found lying informants, prosecutorial misconduct, and hidden exculpatory evidence.in U.S.
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