![]() We said, ‘Man, whoever gets out of here first better come get the other one,” he said. “We basically had made a pact with each other. Scott told Dateline the two brothers had an agreement. "It felt like this was my child being taken away.” “At first, I was like, this is my fault because he followed in my footsteps," Atchison said of Scott. Three years prior, Atchison had been convicted of a separate murder and sentenced to life. They were sentenced to life in prison after eyewitness testimony. ![]() In 1995, Scott and a friend were found guilty of killing a young mother named Karen Summers in a drive-by shooting, a murder they both said they did not commit. It just got to the point that now it’s visible.”Ĭorey Atchison speaks to Craig Melvin part of the Dateline NBC special ![]() “It’s all intertwined, I was screaming that I was innocent, it’s been 26 years ago now. That’s the only reason I want our story to be shared,” Scott said Friday. “There're a thousand ways I could connect it, at the heart of it for me, I want to see a change. Watch the hour-long special "The Long Road to Freedom," on tonight at 10 p.m. His older brother, Corey Atchison, also was wrongfully convicted in a separate murder case and exonerated in 2019. Scott was exonerated in May 2016 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after spending more than 20 years in prison. “I’m happy people are taking notice, I’m sorry that it took such a drastic situation for people to finally actually acknowledge it,” said Malcolm Scott, referring to the national reckoning on race and police relations following Floyd’s death. A Black man wrongfully convicted of murder hopes the nation will finally see real change in relations between the African American community and law enforcement following massive protests over the death of George Floyd.
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