A potential key witness in the murder case of former Miami football player Bryan Pata was found alive at his residence in Louisville, Kentucky, after he was presumed dead by Florida prosecutors, ESPN reported on Thursday.

Prosecutors told Florida 11th Circuit Court Judge Cristina Miranda as recently as July that Paul Conner -- an 81-year-old retired University of Miami writing instructor, who lived in the apartment complex where Pata was shot and killed in November 2006 -- was dead.

A spokesperson for the state attorney's office, Ed Griffith, said that police previously relied on a public database that "seemed to indicate" Conner was deceased, according to the report. However, that wasn't the case, and Conner was, in fact, alive.

Conner initially contacted police soon after the shooti

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