Well, there was a previous restraining order - and the (alleged ?) perp would have been disarmed, had he owned a gun.
I’ve never fully understood why folks who are alarmed enough to get a TRO sometimes say : “ Oh, never mind !”
Many of them live (if only briefly) to regret being so careless about their own safety.
The victim had children and so did the perpetrator. The idiot didn’t even think about his own kids, never mind hers.