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GRAPEVINE – A man was rushed to the hospital after a car hit him while he was running across a dark street.

The accident happened on William D. Tate Avenue near Mustang Drive in Grapevine around 10 p.m. Thursday night.

Grapevine police say the 19-year-old driver who struck the pedestrian stopped immediately to help the man.

A Careflite helicopter took the 43-year-old victim, who lives in Grapevine,  to a local hospital.

So far, no charges have been filed, but police are investigating the accident.

Pedestrian Hit By Car

DALLAS – A Dallas County courtroom erupted in applause Friday as two men wrongly convicted of capital murder 12 years ago were set free.

Fifty-four-year-old Claude Simmons Jr. and 39-year-old Christopher Scott had been serving life sentences for the 1997 murder of Alfonso Aguilar. Recently, another man confessed to the crime. So a state district judge in Dallas ordered Simmons and Scott released during a Friday court hearing.

Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said a joint investigation between the Dallas Police Department’s Cold Case Unit and the Conviction Integrity Unit of the prosecutor’s office led to the developments.

Prosecutors said Alonzo Hardy, 49, confessed to the crime in a sworn statement from prison last summer. His alleged accomplice, Don Michael Anderson, 40, was arrested Tuesday night in the Houston area. Anderson was charged with capital murder, but Hardy has not yet been charged.

Hardy, who has been in state prison since 1999, is serving a 30-year-sentence on an unrelated aggravated robbery committed about a year after the murder, prosecutors said.

State District Judge Robert Burns apologized for the mistakes that were made in the past and asked that the two to not be bitter and enjoy the freedom they are about to experience.

2 Exonerated Men Set Free