Police say a Houston man declared innocent in 2021 after being convicted in a fatal stabbing and serving seven years in prison has been charged with murder.

Lydell Elliott Grant, 46, was booked into jail, charged with murder in the death of Edwin Arevalo, 33.

A Houston man convicted of murder has been declared actually innocent by the state’s highest criminal court.

HOUSTON – Lydell Grant spoke out for the first time since another man has been named the suspect in the 2010 killing of Aaron Scheerhoorn. Jermarico Carter was arrested and charged for stabbing Scheerhoorn several times outside a Montrose bar. New suspect arrested, charged in 2010 Montrose stabbing; DA says Lydell Grant will be exoneratedGrant said he had appeal after appeal denied, but the Innocence Project of Texas listened and intervened. The organization sent DNA results from the trial that they said were not accurate to be examined at a private lab. The DNA findings made this case historic, Innocence Project of Texas Executive Director Mike Ware said.

It was being driven by 33-year-old Grant, who had a suspended license, officials wrote. The officer realized Grant had been marked as wanted for questioning in the Scheerhoorn stabbing case and he was taken in for questioning, officials wrote. This is an undated photo of 28-year-old Aaron Scheerhoorn who was stabbed to death outside a Montrose bar in 2010. “Based on the likelihood ratio result, [defendant] Lydell Grant is excluded as a contributor to this profile,” officials wrote of the findings of the new DNA test. The Innocence Project of Texas, an organization that aims to help exonerate the wrongfully convicted through DNA testing, took up Grant’s cause.