Bang! Bang! Those sounded like those shots came from down the street and it sounded like it came from inside the grocery store that Tommy Vanhoose had owned and was working at today. Should we call the cops? Ryan Matthews is sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murdering Tommy Vanhoose. Tommy Vanhoose was a grocery store owner who was supposedly shot by Ryan Matthews who just so happened to look like Travis Hayes who had killed the clerk and was found in the same car as the getaway driver. Little did we know that the person who was driving the getaway car was the same person in the driver seat with Ryan in the passenger seat as a set up.
After five years Ryan was let go from house arrest and was able to return to his life that
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Because the last seven years has really been hard having my child incarcerated for a crime he clearly did not commit.” The lawyer Billy Sothern had something to say on the topic as well and here is what he said “ Ryan was convicted and sentenced to death for the same reason that a lot of people in America are, because he was poor, because he’s Black and because he didn’t have the kind of power to fight against this sort of awesome power of the state. This case is a case of mistaken identification. It’s a case where DNA evidence was ignored. It’s a case where there was a biased jury and a biased system and it was a case where another young man, Travis Hayes, who is still facing life in prison, made a false confession after being interrogated for hours and hours without attorney, without his parents present.” When Juan Gonzalez was asked for how he felt this is what was stated by Juan “Travis Hayes, who was the young man who at first said that he was the assailant in the murdering of Vanhoose and is still in prison still serving a prison sentence.” As for Travis Hayes who had been the driver with Ryan he was also sentenced to death as well as Ryan. In the end both Ryan Matthews and Travis Hayes were falsely accused of murder and both men were incarcerated by 2007 was when travis was released and 2004 was when Ryan was released. As for the man who originally killed