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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Katie Hawkinson

Jail workers who ‘weren’t paying attention’ let a man who murdered his girlfriend free. He’s been on the run for weeks

Kathan Guzman was sentenced to life in prison last year for killing his 19-year-old girlfriend - (Clayton County Sheriff's Office)

A man sentenced to life in prison for strangling his girlfriend to death has been mistakenly released from a county jail before he could be transferred to prison - leaving his victim’s family ‘petrified.’

Kathan Guzman was sentenced to life in prison in October after a jury convicted him of killing his 19-year-old girlfriend, Delila Grayson, in August 2022. Now, he’s been on the run for two weeks after the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office mistakenly released him from their custody on March 25, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

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