Former Paradise police officer Patrick Feaster was released from custody Tuesday after serving half of a 180-day sentence for involuntary manslaughter, stemming from an on-duty shooting in November 2015.

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea confirmed Feaster was released from custody. He’d been serving the time in the Lassen County Jail in Susanville.

Honea said that Feaster has met the terms of his sentence.

“He served his time,” he said. “I couldn’t hold him any longer.”

Feaster was sentenced on Dec. 9 to 180 days in jail and three years of probation after a jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter trial on Oct. 18. However under the prison realignment law that transferred many inmates from state to county custody, that jail sentence would typically be cut in half.

Feaster had faced up to five years in jail.

Feaster shot 26-year-old Andrew Thomas just after midnight on Nov. 26, 2015, after Thomas attempted to climb out of a Toyota 4Runner that struck a median and overturned on Pearson Road in Paradise.

An occupant in the SUV, Darien Ehorn, 23, was killed after being thrown from the overturned vehicle. Thomas died from complications stemming from his gunshot wound Dec. 19, 2015, at Enloe Medical Center in Chico.

Feaster told a commanding officer at the scene he had an accidental discharge, but not until about 11 minutes after the commanding officer arrived.