OAKLAND — 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 by Alameda County probation officials who run a pretrial release program. But then came September, when Reed was first 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. Just 10 days later, he allegedly shot and killed a man on Sept. 19 in Riverban

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