Texas Gunman Devin Kelley Escaped from Mental Health Facility in 2012

NBC News ^ | Nov. 7, 2017 | Tracy Connor and Daniel Arkin

[Hadean]

The gunman accused of the worst mass murder in Texas history escaped from a mental health hospital during his stint in the Air Force, according to a 2012 police report.

Police took Devin Kelley into custody on June 7, 2012 at a bus terminal in downtown El Paso, Texas, where he had planned to flee by bus after breaking out of Peak Behavioral Health Services, just over 10 miles away in New Mexico, according to NBC Houston affiliate KPRC. Kelley, who was 21 at the time of the escape, had been sent to the facility after he was accused of assaulting his wife and infant stepson.

The person who reported Kelley missing told El Paso officers that Kelley "was a danger to himself and others as he had already been caught sneaking firearms onto Holloman Air Force Base," where he was stationed at the time, according to the police report obtained by KPRC. He "was attempting to carry out death threats" he had made against his military superiors, the report said.

[TBP]

Interesting detail.

[the_Watchman]

Helps to explain President Trump’s tweet that this was a mental health issue.

[bagster]

Didn’t Michael Myers escape from a loony bin?

[Charles Martel]

Hmm. Was the “12 month incarceration” that has been mentioned before as proof of a felony-level offense really his time at Peak Behavioral?

[conservative98]

And Henry Bowers from It.

[GingisK]

His fellow inmates are still in Congress, like expected.

[chief lee runamok]

Insane in the membrane.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/358989-apa-calling-texas-shooting-mental-health-problem-distracts-from-developing

[faithhopecharity]

one flew over the coocoo’s nest?

[blueplum]

so, in addition to the USAF, there was an opportunity for the police dept AND for a mental health agency to put this guy on a do-not-sell list - and neither did?

[CedarDave]

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[Boogieman]

So he not only made threats of a mass shooting in the past, but actually got caught making preparations for one, and they eventually let him go roam the streets so he could finish the job.

[hadaclueonce]

Why can’t we lock up the crazy people?
Ken Kesey’s book.
Wants to kill more people than Rachel Carson.

[faithhopecharity]

we can’t lock up, as you put it, crazy people
because...
1. ACLU won’t let us
2. it gets expensive and
2. D politicans don’t want to be locked up

[Mr Rogers]

The cops did put him on the list according to their paperwork. Sounds like the list isn’t a very good list.

[Windflier]

Yet another crack in the system exposed. Agency, after government agency, failed the people.

[LegendHasIt]

Thanks for the ping.

Reading this, I am ready to put on my tin hat. If any of us did something like this, we’d have to buy guns’on the black market’... Never pass a NICS check.

Perhaps this guy had a government ‘sponsor’ .

[blueplum]

you’re right. I just read in the Houston Chron:

He was described as “a danger to himself and others as he had already been caught sneaking firearms onto Holloman Air Force Base,” and was believed to be “attempting to carry out death threats that (he) had made on his military chain of command,” according to the June 13, 2012, report.