An Oklahoma man tentatively identified as the suspected drunk driver who crashed into an Oklahoma school bus carrying a girls’ softball team Friday had recently been exonerated of murder. John Tallbear served 26 years of a life sentence after he was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of a homeless man, KOCO-TV reported. Officials said new DNA evidence didn’t link Tallbear to the murder and in June 2018 an Oklahoma City judge determined he was not guilty. MORE DETAILS EMERGE IN DEADLY OKLAHOMA COLLISION BETWEEN SCHOOL BUS AND SUVTallbear had been convicted of DUI twice – once in the 1980s and the other time in the 1990s, KOCO-TV reported, citing court records. In order to “avoid a collision,” Joseph Scoggins, 30, the driver of the school bus traveling southbound, swerved into the opposite lane.

Source: Fox News March 11, 2019 16:18 UTC