The Seattle Times · Jul 29, 2015
Chicago man cleared after 17 years in prison shot dead
CHICAGO (AP) — 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 “some sort of transaction” between Nash and his attacker, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. He said police were questioning a person of interest.
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.