Alleged Oakland gang leader was on a mission for revenge after brother’s homicide, police say. Now the feds have taken the case

OAKLAND — A man who allegedly cut off his ankle monitor and absconded from parole just three days after finishing a 17-year prison sentence has been hit with a federal gun charge, court records show.

Terrance King, 30, was arrested after police received a tip he was coming to the Bay Area from Southern California in search of whoever killed his brother in Oakland, while King was still in prison. When authorities caught up to him in San Leandro, he was allegedly carrying a satchel with an AK-47-style pistol and attempted to evade arrest, prosecutors allege.

King was initially charged with a probation violation and illegal gun possession, but now he faces a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. In a bid to keep King in jail while the case is pending, prosecutors not only referred to him as an Oakland “gang leader” but also said that ballistics examiners found a “preliminary correlation” between the gun and three prior shootings that occurred before King’s release, including a June 19 mass shooting in Oakland.

King’s attorney in the state case filed court papers saying he came to the Bay Area to round up his family and leave the area, not for a nefarious purpose.

A federal magistrate signed off on King’s detention, citing the facts of the case and King’s alleged gang membership.

King was among 17 alleged members of the Oakland-based Case Gang arrested in 2013. The defendants faced charges ranging from robbery and assault to pimping, and King eventually took a plea deal and a 17-year sentence, records show.

Last April, King’s 25-year-old brother, Hodari Lyons, was shot and killed on the 6900 block of Hamilton Street in East Oakland. When prison officials and authorities learned that Lyons was King’s brother, a group of law enforcement officials from Oakland police, the California Department Of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and a parole officer met with King in prison to dissuade him from retaliating, according to authorities.

King paroled into Southern California on June 28. By July 1, police say, he had removed his ankle monitor and was wanted on a so-called parolee-at-large warrant.