MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee County judge is considering whether Darreon Parker-Bell, who opened fire inside a police station in 2022, could be conditionally released from a state mental health facility under a treatment plan still being developed by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Judge Nidhi Kashyap determined that Parker-Bell, now 28, is a candidate for conditional release. The decision does not mean he will be released. He is scheduled to return to court Dec. 7 for a status conference. Parker-Bell was 24 when he entered Milwaukee Police Department District 5 near Vel R. Phillips Avenue and Locust Street on Feb. 25, 2022, and fired shots. People in the lobby took cover, and an officer narrowly avoided being shot while trying to return fire. Parker-Bell was arrested outside the station that day. Prosecutors charged him with recklessly endangering safety. A criminal complaint said Parker-Bell admitted to the shooting and told investigators he was upset about the death of his friend, Keishon Thomas, who had died in police custody the previous week. At a plea hearing, Kashyap found Parker-Bell not criminally responsible, ruling that he lacked the ability to appreciate that his actions were wrong. She ordered him to serve 30 years in a state mental health facility. Milwaukee Police Association President Alex Ayala criticized the possibility of conditional release and said the association plans to attend the December hearing. “This person is a menace to society,” Ayala said, arguing that Parker-Bell had fired indiscriminately at people inside the station. “I just don’t know how that translates to he can get out four years later.” The shooting prompted the installation of bullet-resistant glass in police station lobbies across Milwaukee.