OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — On Friday, a legislation enforcement procession carried parole agent Joshua Byrd’s physique from the Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau in Oakland to the East Lake Funeral Residence in Sacramento.
Byrd, 40, was recognized by the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation because the parole agent shot and killed contained in the Oakland parole unit on Thursday afternoon at about 12:50 p.m. Hours later, 48-year-old Bryan Keith Corridor of Oakland was arrested and brought into custody and charged with homicide within the first-degree.
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After serving with distinction within the U.S. Navy, Byrd joined CDCR in 2014 as a cadet on the Fundamental Correctional Officer Academy. After that, he served as a correctional officer, rising to the rank of correctional agent in 2020. In 2024, Byrd joined the Division of Grownup Parole Operations in Oakland as a parole agent.
Alameda County court docket data present that Corridor has an extended prison historical past, relationship again to 1996. The CDCR confirmed that Corridor was charged with tried homicide inflicting nice bodily harm in 2022. That cost was related to a stabbing. Corridor spent greater than two years in an area jail and wasn’t sentenced till earlier this yr. The case was resolved with the Alameda County District Lawyer’s workplace. Corridor was sentenced to 4 years for assault with a lethal weapon, and all different costs and particular allegations had been dismissed as a part of a negotiated plea.
Corridor was launched on parole instantly, as a result of he had already served time.
Bryan Clay, CEO of Lead Star Safety, spent practically 30 years with the CDCR. He retired in 2016 after supervising the entire parole places of work in Northern California.
“This has by no means occurred earlier than. It is just about extraordinary,” stated Clay, who was nonetheless in shock.
CDCR stated Byrd’s line-of-duty demise was the primary for the division since 2018 and the primary time a parole agent has been killed within the line of responsibility for the reason that state enacted the parole legislation in 1893.
Wanting forward, Clay feels the division would possibly look into making adjustments at their places of work.
“I feel there could also be some change, it is undoubtedly going to be an eye fixed opener,” stated Clay. “Persons are going to look a bit otherwise at how we’re approaching parolees and permitting them to return into the constructing.”
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