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OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — Months after a judge praised an Oakland murder defendant as a “wonderful young man” and released him from jail, police in Stanislaus County have publicly identified him as an “armed and dangerous” fugitive who allegedly killed a man last month.
Keyante Reed, 19, was released from jail in January by Alameda County Judge Elena Condes, and for the next several months was deemed compliant in an Alameda County pretrial release program. But then came Sept. 9, when Reed was wounded in a shootout almost identical to the one that led to his Oakland murder case.
He was hospitalized and jailed on suspicion of gun possession, then freed from custody, according to court records. Then, on Sept. 19, he allegedly shot and killed a man in Riverbank in Stanislaus County, records show.
On Oct. 18, 2024, Reed was charged with murdering 50-year-old Lamar Payne in a Sept. 7, 2024 shootout outside the Go Go Amigo Market, near 105th Avenue and E Street in East Oakland. Police say Reed and two other men began firing at one another, and that Payne was killed during the shootout. A second suspected gunman was identified as 21-year-old Michai Adams and charged with murder this year. A third suspect, 22-year-old Tamarkus Killensworth, was arrested for allegedly pulling a gun during the incident, court records show.
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