On July 17, 2025, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation parole agent Joshua Lemont Byrd, a 40-year-old male, was fatally shot inside the Division of Adult Parole Operations office at 7717 Edgewater Drive in East Oakland just before 1 p.m. Responders rushed him to Highland Hospital, where he died of his injuries. Authorities described the killing as the first on-duty death of a CDCR officer since 2018, and the first killing of a California parole officer since the state's parole
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