After serving 23 years for a murder he did not commit, man suffers heart attack on his second day of freedom

Less than 48 hours after his first taste of freedom in two decades, David Ranta suffered a serious heart attack and had to be rushed to the hospital, his lawyer said Saturday.

Ranta, 58, was freed Thursday after serving 23 years for a murder he did not commit — and Friday night was admitted to a New York hospital in the grip of a crushing heart attack, lawyer Pierre Sussman told the Daily News.

“We’re just trying to grasp everything that happened,” said a woman who identified herself as Ranta’s niece from inside the Staten Island home of the freed man’s sister.

“He’s great. He’s doing great,” she added.

Ranta had been stabilized and was being treated in the cardiac intensive care unit, his lawyer said.

Full Article @ NY Daily News

I think he would qualify for the ‘Bad Luck Brian‘ meme.

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