Tyree Musier with his mother Annette (left) and sisters Tamira and Tania outside the Philadelphia courthouse shortly after he was released from custody after spending 17 years in prison for a murder he said he didn't commit. Read more Alejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer

by Ellie Rushing Published Sept. 16, 2025, 5:29 p.m. ET

For the first time in nearly two decades, Tyree Musier is a free man.

A beaming Musier, seated in a wheelchair, rolled through the double doors of Philadelphia’s criminal courthouse Tuesday afternoon, out into the cool city air and into the arms of his weeping family.

“Seventeen years!” Tamira Musier screamed as she embraced her brother. “An innocent man!”

Hours earlier, Assistant District Attorney David Napiorski had told a judge that he believed

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