ROSEVILLE, Calif. (KNX) – Placer County District Attorney Morgan Gire wants answers after the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation granted early release to an inmate who was arrested again last month in the murder of a Sacramento woman.
Darnell Erby, 44, was accused in the July murder of Pamela Garrett May, a 77-year-old woman in Sacramento. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, May’s body was “dismembered beyond recognition.”
In a letter to the CDCR, Gire said Erby was sentenced 12 years in prison in August 2017 and was released in 2021 despite being denied parole in 2018 and 2020.
Questions asked by Gire included:
1.) Why was Erby released when both the Placer and Amador County district attorneys opposed it?
2) What rule or regulation allowed Erby to be released early?
“CDCR’s efforts to provide positive rehabilitative programming for inmates are laudable and most appreciated. Unfortunately, it was abundantly clear from inmate Erby’s extensive record and lack of progress while incarcerated that he was unsuitable and undeserving of early release,” Gire wrote
At this time, Erby is still in custody without bail at Sacramento County Jail.
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