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Judi Lynn

(160,631 posts) Thu Mar 17, 2016, 02:06 AM Mar 2016

N.C. man cleared of 1984 murder dead from likely suicide: police

Source: Reuters

N.C. man cleared of 1984 murder dead from likely suicide: police

Reuters
11 hours ago

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A black North Carolina man exonerated in 2004 after 19 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit appears to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said on Wednesday.

Darryl Hunt, who was 51 and had been reported missing, was found dead inside a locked car in Winston-Salem on Sunday.

A handgun was located near Hunt's body and an autopsy showed a single gunshot wound to his torso, Winston-Salem police said in a statement.

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Twice convicted in the 1984 death of 25-year-old newspaper copy editor Deborah Sykes, who was white, Hunt was freed from prison after DNA evidence from the crime scene was matched to another man who later confessed to the killing.

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/n-c-man-cleared-1984-murder-dead-likely-181051327.html

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Darryl Hunt, Winston-Salem [/center]
Rest in peace.

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N.C. man cleared of 1984 murder dead from likely suicide: police (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2016 OP

Poor guy elljay Mar 2016 #1

He had stage 4 cancer. joshcryer Mar 2016 #4

Some people have no luck in life n/t elljay Mar 2016 #6

RIP Mr. Hunt KT2000 Mar 2016 #2

This is horrible. BeanMusical Mar 2016 #3

Full investigation warrprayer Mar 2016 #5

elljay

(1,178 posts)

1. Poor guy

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 17, 2016, 02:30 AM

Mar 2016

We can't say for sure why he did this, but I imagine that spending 19 years in prison for a crime he did not commit must have really taken a toll on his spirit. What a shame.