WALNUT CREEK — A year after he was released from prison for killing a man in Bay Point, a 30-year-old man is back in jail facing charges related to an armed robbery here, court records show.
Khalil Hardy, who has addresses in Dixon and Antioch, was charged with robbery and gun possession by a felon, according to court records. He’s being held in Contra Costa, with bail set at $2.3 million, and is due for a preliminary hearing in mid-October, records show.
Walnut Creek police linked Hardy to a March 23 armed robbery involving three suspects who accosted three patrons of a bar on Treat Boulevard around 10:15 p.m. They stole a cigarette carton, wallet, and $500,000 Richard Mille watch from one of the victims, authorities said.
Police later found the Hyundai sedan used in the robbery, which had been rented in Dixon, and found Hardy’s phone on the vehicle’s floor. The Hyundai had been parked in the shoulder of Highway 24 with its hazard lights still on, and had two flat tires, authorities said.
In 2018, Hardy pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and carjacking — charges that stemmed from the August 2014 killing of 25-year-old Paul Chambers IV in Bay Point and an unrelated robbery — and he was sentenced to 18 years in state prison. He was given credit for roughly three-and-a-half years spent in county jail. In 2024, he was released from prison after serving two-thirds of his sentence, court records show.
Chambers was found lying in a doorway on the 2200 block of Placer Drive in Bay Point, at around 10:30 p.m. Aug. 8, 2014. Hardy was arrested several days later. The murder case ran into problems when authorities determined that both men had been armed, and both had reached for their guns when they bumped into each other that night, according to court records.
The motive was never revealed in court records, but described by prosecutors as a personal conflict between the two men. Even so, Hardy was originally charged with killing Chambers to benefit an Antioch-based street gang.