While liberals run off blaming guns even though nearly every level of law enforcement failed to catch clear and obvious red flags in the Florida school shooting, it appears something very similar happened in the Central Michigan University shooting too.
That’s the case where a student shot and killed his parents, one of whom was a cop.
The shooting at Central Michigan University today strikes close to home. A sad day in Bellwood and across the 7th District. My sincerest condolences go out to the family of Bellwood Police Officer James Davis Sr. and his wife who were shot and killed this morning. May they RIP. pic.twitter.com/B0cykAxFVv
— Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch (@SpeakerWelchIL) March 2, 2018
Pretty horrible.
But what makes it worse is that police apprehended the kid but let him go just hours before he shot and killed his parents.
Not just once, but twice:
[Central Michigan University Police Chief] Yeagley also revealed that campus police officers had encountered Davis multiple times in the 24-hours leading up to Friday’s shooting.
On Thursday morning, Yeagley said Davis “ran into the office of our community policing officer very frightened.”
“He said someone was out to hurt him, someone was out to harm him,” Yeagley said, adding that when officers pressed Davis for more details, he was “extremely vague.”
Campus police launched an investigation into the Davis’ complaint and even interviewed a man Davis said was armed and wanted to hurt him, but ultimately police decided the man “did not pose any risk to Davis or anyone else.”
Hours later, police again encountered Davis in the hallway of a dormitory with his bags packed, as though he was moving out. Yeagley said Davis “was really not making any sense” and his erratic behavior made officers suspect that drugs were involved, so they called his parents.
“The officer said we had some suspicion it might be drugs, does he have a drug history?” Yeagley said. “The mother said she too is concerned this could be drugs.”
Officers took Davis to the hospital, where he was treated and later released into the custody of his parents on Friday.
Hours later, Davis’ parents James Eric Davis, 48, and Diva Jeneen Davis, 47 were shot and killed.
SO I’m not going to say this absolutely proved they botched this right? They got him treatment, and apparently someone signed off on letting him go. Maybe that was all they could do. BUT I wonder if they would have treated him the same if his dad wasn’t a cop. Is it likely that the dad pulled some strings in order to downplay his son’s odd behavior so that he would get into less trouble? I think it is likely.