Authorities said 10 people remain in critical condition and four are in serious condition, while a vigil to honour three students killed and six injured is being planned for Wednesday night.
The Air Force said it is launching a review of its handling of Kelley’s case and will re-examine whether other cases have been reported correctly.
An initial review indicates Kelley’s conviction was not entered into the federal database by officials at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, where Kelley served from 2010 until his discharge.
A US federal law, the Lautenberg Amendment, passed in 1996 was specifically designed to prevent people convicted of domestic violence from buying or possessing a firearm.
“This is exactly the guy the Lautenberg Amendment is supposed to prevent from possessing a firearm,” said Rachel VanLandingham, a professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles and a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and former judge advocate.
“Of course, the law only works if folks are abiding by the law.”
Lindsay Nichols, the US federal policy director at the Giffords Law Centre to Prevent Gun Violence, condemned the Air Force’s failure to raise the alarm.
“The fact this guy was even court martialled at all indicates it reached a certain level of severity that should act as a red flag that this is a dangerous person and shouldn’t have a gun,” she said.
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