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A man convicted in the fatal 2007 mob killing of a Rochester, New York, woman was released from prison this month after prosecutors said newly disclosed evidence made his conviction impossible to retry.

Terrance Mack had been serving a 25-year sentence for first-degree gang assault in the death of Latasha Shaw, 36, who was beaten and fatally stabbed on Sept. 29, 2007. According to court documents, Shaw called 911 that evening to report that a group of women had assaulted her 14-year-old daughter, her niece and her daughter's friend. As she walked toward a house near Driving Park and Dewey avenues, a crowd of 20 to 30 people confronted her with knives, bottles, sticks and other makeshift weapons. Shaw suffered blunt force trauma to her skull and stab wounds to her abdomen, and died later that night.

An eyewitness identified Mack from a photo lineup in October 2007, and he was arrested more than a year later in Elmira, New York, where he had been living with his girlfriend and their daughter. A Monroe County grand jury indicted Mack along with his cousin, Ebony Mack, who was charged with second-degree murder; both men also faced first-degree gang assault charges.

A jury acquitted Ebony Mack of murder in 2009 and convicted Terrance Mack of gang assault. Mack's attorneys argued at trial that only one of several witnesses shown a photo array had identified him, and that other witnesses placed him in Elmira at the time of the killing. For years afterward, his family said no DNA or forensic evidence tied him to the crime.

Mack applied to the Monroe County District Attorney's Office Conviction Integrity Unit in 2025. A federal habeas corpus petition was denied separately in December 2025, and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed his bid to appeal that ruling in May 2026. Monroe County District Attorney Brian Green said the integrity unit's review turned up information that had not reached Mack's appellate lawyers during those proceedings and that "would almost certainly have resulted in success" in his appeal.

Green said the new information left the case "no longer triable." A Monroe County Court judge vacated Mack's conviction and dismissed the indictment, and Mack was released after 18 years in custody. No one remains imprisoned in Shaw's death.