The woman who shot and killed an FBI agent 14 years ago as he attempted to serve an arrest warrant at her home in Indiana Township was released from a federal prison Tuesday, according to U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
Christina Korbe, 53, was released Tuesday from the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, according to the Bureau of Prisons website. Korbe previously had been incarcerated at a federal prison in Danbury, Conn.
Korbe was convicted of killing Special Agent Samuel Hicks on Nov. 19, 2008, as he and a team of law enforcement officers conducted an early morning raid to arrest her husband, Robert R. Korbe, on drug charges at their Woods Run Road home.
Hicks, who breached the front door, was wearing a bulletproof vest, but the shot, fired by Christina Korbe from the second floor and down the dark stairwell, struck him in his chest. Hicks, 33, was a Southmoreland High School graduate.
Korbe said she thought someone was breaking into their home, and she fired the shot for protection.
She was sentenced to 15 years and 10 months in prison after she pleaded guilty in 2011 to voluntary manslaughter and a firearms charge. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors dropped a charge of murdering a federal officer.
Robert R. Korbe pleaded guilty in May 2011 to drug charges and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. In June 2020, he pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell synthetic cannabinoids at the federal prison in Loretto between 2017 and 2019 and was ordered to serve another four years in prison.
The 53-year-old Korbe is incarcerated at the federal medium security prison in Jessup, Ga., where he is scheduled to be released in October 2033, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
Christina Korbe had tried to win her release two years ago after contracting covid in March 2020, during the early days of the pandemic. She was coughing, suffered from nausea and body aches and lost her sense of taste and smell for a month. In April 2020, she sought home arrest for the remainder of her sentence, but the request was denied.
At the time, Korbe was eligible for release to a halfway house in less than a year. Prosecutors, however, opposed her attempt to get out of prison on a compassionate release.
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While in prison, she served in the chaplain support services apprenticeship program and as a trained suicide companion, in which she monitors potentially suicidal inmates. She took classes through Yale Theology and was in a “scared straight” video for teenage girls, according to her attorney.
