PAROLE AGENT MURDERED IN OAKLAND

By Bob Walsh

 

Joshua Byrd (left) was shot inside the Division of Adult Parole Operations office in Oakland at around 12:50 pm Thursday, according to state officials

 

Joshua Byrd, 40, a parole agent with the CA Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation, was shot to death in the Edgewater Drive parole office in Oakland yesterday.  The suspected shooter, Bryan Keith Hall, 40, who has been out of prison about ten days, is in custody.  He fled the scene and hijacked a bus to get away from the scene.

Byrd joined the DOCR back in 2014 and was a Correctional Officer and Correctional Sargent at the institution level before moving to parole, a post he has held for about one year.  This is the first line-of-duty homicide for the DOCR since 2018.