The head of the union for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is whipping at an Indiana prosecutor he says has failed to use the state’s “red flag” gun law against the alleged FedEx shooter.
Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears refused a hearing last year against 19-year-old Brandon Holl, as permitted under the gun law.
Officials said such a hearing could have taken place when a gun was caught from the hole last year after her mother told police that she feared she wanted to commit suicide by police.
The lack of hearing cleared the way for Hole to legally purchase the two weapons used in the massacre, police union chiefs are complaining, According to the local station WLKY.
The FedEx massacre killed eight people.
“Why didn’t the prosecutor seek a hearing that the law required? Why didn’t the prosecutor use all the legal means available? Why didn’t the prosecutor try?” Indianapolis said Police President Rick Snyder’s Fraternal Order, which said Mears “failed to do his part.”
Under the law, prosecutors must bring their case to a judge against Hole within 14 days, and convince them that Hole has a “high propensity for violence”.
If they were unsuccessful, Hole would have recovered the gun.
“In this particular situation, we had a case where it was just an incident, no other incident was reported to us, a firearm was taken from the house, there was an agreement that the firearm would not return,” Bear said .
Indiana Republican state Sen. Erin Hutchin told WLKY legislation “Work can be what it is” In the case of the last FedEx shooter.
“I think the prosecutor followed the red flag process in this case, then this 19-year-old man may not be able to buy a second firearms after voluntarily turning that weapon on the family,” Hauchin said.
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