A judge ruled that shooter Seth Ator was "a deficient mental" and was detained in an institution according to CNN

ODESSA, TX (CNN) – The West Texas man who killed seven people and wounded 25 others during a shootout failed a background check when attempting to purchase a weapon Fired in 2014 because he had already been deemed "mentally deficient" and hired temporarily in an institution, CNN officials told law enforcement officials. Wednesday.

Seth Ator, 36, had been incarcerated at an unidentified institution in McLennan County in 2006 because he was considered a danger to himself and / or others, according to one source.

The pledge was made more than a decade ago, said a second source.

Nevertheless, Ator has managed to buy the gun used during Saturday's mass shooting in the last two years, according to a third source.
Police said Ator had used an AR-15 rifle during the killings in and around Odessa.