(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A 42-year old man convicted of murder as a teenager and later exonerated has been shot to death in the south suburbs.
Michael Saunders and three others had been known as the “Englewood Four,” convicted of a 1994 rape and murder.
After eventually being freed because DNA analysis pointed to another person as the killer, the four received multi-million-dollar settlements from the city of Chicago and Cook County.
On Monday, Saunders was shot in the head and killed in south suburban Calumet Park, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. His former attorney, Peter Neufeld, said the killing is “utterly shocking” because Saunders had been doing well in life.
WBBM Newsradio was trying to get more information from Calumet Park police.
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