In 1993 Harry Ruiz was convicted of murder and was given a maximum sentence. He had been kept in prison for 25 years for a murder he did not commit. After a reinvestigation case was reopened it had found the other teenage witness and mother were told Ruiz was a part of the murder after he had been convicted. In 2019 he was released on parole in 2019. He had later been acquitted on all charges in April of 2026.