A Minnesota father has been freed from his life sentence for murder after a star witness who helped put him behind bars nearly three decades ago grew “soul sick” with guilt and confessed to the killing.

Bryan Hooper Sr. walked out of the Stillwater Correctional Facility and into the arms of his children on Thursday as he was wrongly imprisoned for 27 years for the 1998 murder of 77-year-old Ann Prazniak, the Great North Innocent Project announced .

The Hennepin County District Court exonerated Hooper Sr. over Prazniak’s murder when they received a handwritten confession from Chalaka Young — the key witness who had testified against him — who admitted to killing the 77-year-old. 4

In April 1998, Prazniak was found dead inside a cardboard box in her Minneapolis apartment. Officials

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