Just days before a Gqeberha man was meant to appear in court again for his alleged involvement in a double murder, he was rearrested, this time on a charge of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
he also says his son struggled with mental health issues. anderson. adrienne, thank you. new asal nis from the washington post finds more than 338,000 kids in this country have been exposed to shootings at some point from kindergarten through 12th grade since 1999. 338,000. we re joined by cnn senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe. andrew, obviously still a lot we don t know about this latest shooter s motivation. we do know he pleaded guilty to a firearm charge back in 2019. one source says he purchased two weapons in the state of michigan in 2021. does it strike you as odd he was able to make that present? yes, we don t have quite enough facts to sort through this perfectly but what i can tell you, on the federal level, his firearms conviction for a misdemeanor would not have prohibited him from purchasing a firearm. the disqualifier in the brady act is having been convicted of
the father told us his son became bitter, isolated, and angry. he also says his son struggled with mental health issues, anderson. adrian brought us, we appreciate the report. thank you. a new analysis by the washington post finds that more than 338,000 kids in this country have been exposed to shootings at some point from kindergarten through 12th grade since 1999. 338,000. we re joined by cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. andrew, obviously a lot we don t know about this latest shooter s motivation. we do know he pleaded guilty to a firearm charge back in 2019. law enforcement source tells cnn he purchased two weapons in the state of michigan in 2021. does it strike you as odd that he was able to make that purchase? yeah, anderson, it s really at this point, we don t have quite enough facts to sort through this thing perfectly. but what i can tell you is on the federal level, is firearms conviction for a misdemeanor
vehicle, which is a two-year offense in michigan, but still a predicate offense for either a felony and possession charge or felony firearm charge, meaning he was not eligible to have that weapon. so one of the things we re going to need to know is how did he get that weapon and can we put laws in place in michigan to ensure that a person such as himself who is ineligible to own a firearm can never access one? that s one of the questions we re going to be have to be addressing and thank god we at long last have a legislature and a governor here in the state of michigan that not only are willing to pass gun violence prevention laws, but really ran on that as a platform. so i expect to see a number of new laws put into place in short order. whether or not that would have prevented this particular offense from happening, i think the investigation will tell us that. i m struck that you obviously
thought, acted in a way in which you want to see police respond. and they do respond that way in the vast majority of cases. that led to this individual at least being located. now, he took his own life, which is not uncommon when you have people who do this kind of thing that this individual did, but the fact that it alerted a member of the public who could then provide them with the information to find this individual, it would not have happened had the police not put that information out as quickly as they did. yeah. chief, so the suspect did have a criminal record in michigan. he pled guilty to this firearm charge in 2019. he got off probation in 2021. he had at least two weapons on him, a handgun, another one in the backpack that he was carrying. we re just learning inside the note, he wrote that he was going to, quote, finish off lancing, end quote. that just in to cnn. what do those details tell you? well, i mean, he had more