Why was a teen charged in two Nashville murders released from custody?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – A teenager out on bond for two suspected murders in Nashville was arrested again last week for a separate shooting.

Oswaldo Corado, 19, shot someone at an Antioch playground on Friday night, police said, leading to two additional aggravated assault charges while he awaits trial for two first-degree murder charges stemming from separate shootings in November and December of 2020.

Questions linger about how exactly Corado, accused in the deaths of two people, was allowed out of jail or given a bond while awaiting trial.

Stephen Hayslip, spokesman for Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk, said Corado was a juvenile at the time of his alleged murders and his bond amount was set by Judge Sheila D.J. Calloway at $150,000.

Calloway and other judges have the discretion to set a bond amount in juvenile cases and the District Attorney’s Office does not have the jurisdiction to revoke bonds that seem too low or inappropriate.

Hayslip said Calloway set the bond she deemed appropriate. The DA’s office has filed a motion to revoke Corado’s current $150,000 bond based on his latest charges.

“Bond is GENERALLY set by the magistrates … overseen by the General Sessions Presiding Judge,” Hayslip wrote in an email. “However, this bond was different since it was set by the Juvenile Court Judge.”

Parents like Cassidy Gilbert are keeping an extra close eye on their children at the Mill Ridge Park playground after police said Corado pointed a gun at one person and shot someone else in the hand in this latest incident.

“There has to be harsher punishments for things like that,” Gilbert said. “Make sure we don’t have any crazy people still running out on the streets that are not willing to get their lives together.”

Part of Corado’s original bond required him to be on an ankle monitor and he was not permitted to be around any firearms.

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