“The Air Force has launched a review of how the service handled the criminal records of former Airman Devin P. Kelley following his 2012 domestic violence conviction,” the Air Force said in a statement. The statement said Heather Wilson, the Air Force secretary, and Gen. David Goldfein, the Air Force chief of staff, had ordered the Air Force inspector general to “conduct a complete review of the Kelley case.”The Air Force also said it was looking into whether other convictions had been improperly left unreported to the federal database for firearms background checks. Mr. Kelley made it back to his car and led the bystander and another man in a dramatic chase that ended in a crash, with Mr. Kelley dead behind the wheel. He also said he had repeatedly hit his young stepson’s head with his hands, which cracked his skull, said Don Christensen, a retired colonel who was the chief prosecutor for the Air Force. Greg Abbott of Texas told CNN that Mr. Kelley had been rejected when he applied for a license to carry a handgun in Texas.

Source: New York Times November 06, 2017 15:10 UTC