Are men still imprisoned for murdering victim they mistook for someone else?

Q: I’d like to know if Walter Currie and Paul E. Davis are still incarcerated. They killed my brother Eldred Hardin in 1992.

A: Walter Currie Jr. and Paul E. Davis are still in prison.

The two men were convicted of the May 11, 1992, stabbing death of 37-year-old Eldred Hardin, whom they mistook for someone else, according to stories in The Sacramento Bee.

Hardin was visiting the Dos Rios government-subsidized housing project, just north of downtown Sacramento, when his assailants mistook him for a person who had information about an earlier robbery of Davis. After the stabbing, Hardin staggered to a nearby apartment, where his pleas for help were ignored. He later was dragged away by residents to a lawn area where he died.

Davis, now 44 years old, is at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville.

Currie, 43, is at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione.

This story was originally published February 2, 2018 at 10:14 PM with the headline "Are men still imprisoned for murdering victim they mistook for someone else?."