BUFFALO, N.Y. — Two Buffalo men will each be paid $4.35 million from the City of Buffalo after being wrongfully convicted of murder.
The City of Buffalo Common Council approved the payout during their regular meeting on Tuesday.
Darryl Boyd and John Walker were both imprisoned for decades for the death of William Crawford. Now they will be paid a combined total of $8.7 million.
The move comes just one week after lawyers recommended that the City of Buffalo pay two men wrongfully convicted of murder more than $4 million each.
Both men were members of the so-called Buffalo Five, a group of teenagers who were convicted for the 1976 robbery-murder of Crawford.
They each filed lawsuits against the city in 2022, accusing former Buffalo Police homicide detectives of withholding evidence about another suspect and using false information to pin the crime on five teenagers.
For Walker, it was 22 years in prison followed by parole.
"Thinking back as far as when I was 16 years old, me and my friends and how our life was stolen from us," Walker told 2 On Your Side back in July of 2022. "And not only did we go and suffer things. I saw men die over nothing in prison. I saw men lose their manhood in prison. I've had all kinds of issues in prison. I couldn't have made it unless I was the person I am."
Boyd spent 28 years in prison.
"Unlawfully detained," Boyd said in in 2022. "And then after that put through suffering, pain, and misery. And then to be returned back to the location where I was kidnapped from to be covered by parole. I just want to know what's going on with this."