The MSU shooter was charged with a weapon felony in 2019. Ingham County Prosecutor dropped the charges and let him plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge instead and gave him probation. The felony would have prohibited him from owning or possessing a gun, but with a misdemeanor, once his probation was finished, he could have one.
First opportunity to hold him accountable
Then after that he was shooting at targets in his back yard (in a residential neighborhood) and neighbors called the police. They visited him, yet did nothing and left him to continue on.
Second opportunity to arrest him for discharging a firearm illegally
His dad even confronted him about it and did nothing either. Opportunity #3
Washington Post-- Michael McRae, the father of Anthony Dwayne McRae, said his son had bought a gun sometime after he was arrested in 2019 on a weapons violation, but never admitted he had it in the house. When the father confronted the son about gunshots he heard in his backyard, he said, Anthony McRae told him it was fireworks, even after Michael McRae saw bullet casings on the grass.
“I told him to get rid of the gun,” the 66-year-old father told The Post. “He kept lying to me about it and told me he got rid of it.”
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