Lewis was shot four times as two masked men tried to rob the store.
As Clay left jail, screams of joy echoed outside. His mother embraced her son for the fist time, with no murder charge hanging over him."It don't even feel real," he said,"but it's real.""I thank God, because if it weren't for Him, I don't know where I'd be," Clay said.Clay also expressed gratitude for his attorneys standing by him, saying they always knew he"was an innocent man.
Attorneys for all three defendants – Clay, Colon, and Alexander Villa - allege the CPD and the states Attorney's office concealed and destroyed evidence to secure arrests and convictions — and coerced confessions.
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