Overview

• Bryan Keith Hall, 48, was arraigned on a first-degree murder charge Monday after a manhunt that saw him allegedly carjack an AC Transit bus and steal a car.
• Governor Gavin Newsom ordered flags at the State Capitol flown at half-staff and law enforcement agencies escorted Byrd’s remains from Oakland to Sacramento in a solemn procession.
• Joshua Lemont Byrd’s death marks the first line-of-duty fatality for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation since 2018.
• Hall had been released on parole in February after serving over two years for an assault with a deadly weapon conviction and has a decades-long criminal history.
• State officials have launched a review of safety protocols at parole offices, with calls to install metal detectors at facility entrances.