A man accused of murder was accidentally released from a Pike County Jail.
Family members of murder victim Tyrone Booker thought they were closer to justice and closure.
“I’m livid,” Booker’s aunt Cheri Allen told LEX 18.
The attorney for Terrance Moore, the man accused, even said he was surprised that his client had been released.
Jail officials told LEX 18 that the reason Moore was let out was confusion.
Pike County Lieutenant Johnny Cooper said Moore was transferred to their facility from Taylor County in mid-September and they never saw anything about a pending Murder charge as it related to Moore, only a robbery charge.
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“The Department of Corrections sent us a notice of discharge for that charge,” said Cooper. “So by our system, he was ready to go.”
They called it a “procedural error.”
“I want no other family to go through what we went through today. Nobody,” said Allen. “This is the worst pain ever.”
A judge has issued a warrant for Moore’s arrest.
Tyrone Booker was one of the “Mis-Identified Four,” a group of men who sued and won a case against the City of Louisville for being profiled.
Police say he was killed in March.
