Suspect in 12-year-old girl’s killing was released from prison days before shooting

Tyree Reynolds, the man accused of fatally shooting 12-year-old Khloe Ishway at a homecoming football game last week, was previously convicted of assault in connection to a 2021 shooting and was released early.

In 2021, a judge sentenced Reynolds to 15 years behind bars after he was charged with first-degree assault for his role in a shootout, according to the state attorney’s office. He was also charged with possession of a handgun.

The assault charge carried a sentence of 15 years, seven of which were suspended, according to the State Attorney’s Office. He received an additional five years in prison without the possibility of parole for the handgun charge.

Reynolds served five years in prison before being released in September, just eight days before the shooting at Leon Day Park.

A 2021 plea deal between Reynolds and the State’s Attorney’s Office included an agreement for the state to consider a sentence modification request in the future. Reynolds made that request for a hearing in 2025.

The state agreed to his release, in part, because it had received a “strongly supportive letter” from Mark Mason, the chief of victim services at the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement on Reynolds’ behalf, Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates said in a statement.

“Based on those representations, and after considering the circumstances at the time, the State did not oppose the requested modification,” he said.

Court records showed part of Reynolds’ probation agreement entailed that he not possess a weapon, but just days after he re-entered the community, police said he was seen on video firing bullets toward a man and into the crowds at Leon Day Park.

“When you look at his record, and you see that this isn’t the first time we’ve arrested him for similar things only for him to be back out on the street and taking the life of a 12-year-old — this is what we’re talking about from the city perspective when the police go out and do their job—when they find someone who had an illegal handgun and shot somebody—and they go and they work with the state’s attorney, and then that person just gets sent back out,” Mayor Brandon Scott told WJZ.

He added: “A 12-year-old baby should be here today not only because [Reynolds] should’ve known how to resolve his conflict in a better way, but also more importantly because he still should have been in jail.”

Reynolds, seated in a wheelchair after catching a bullet to the ankle in the shooting, appeared before a judge Wednesday morning in connection to Ishway’s murder. He was held without bail and remains detained.