(CNN) After spending the last nine years taking back his life after being exonerated of murder and released from prison, Damon Thibodeaux has died of complications from Covid-19. She said most people are hateful but Damon was not," David Thibodeaux, Damon's brother, told CNN. He was on the road when he started feeling sickDamon was on the road, shortly after getting his second Moderna vaccine shot, when he started feeling symptoms of the virus, David said. David told him he loved him, and he made plans to drive from Texas to pick Damon up. Wrongly convicted and was still seeking compensationThibodeaux was wrongly convicted in 1997 after he after falsely confessed to having raped and murdered his 14-year-old step-cousin.

Source: CNN September 17, 2021 01:07 UTC