They hand the gun back to a violent man and he kills his wife

A man which the state of Alabama had taken away his armed After a complaint for domestic violence, he managed to recover her thanks to a court decision and ended up using it to shoot and kill his wife, in a femicide that shocked the United States.

The killer is Jason McIntosh whose gun was confiscated by Alabama security forces after playing in a violent domestic incident with her partner nine months before the crime.

The 31-year-old was rushed to an emergency room in a Birmingham, Alabama suburb with a gunshot wound to her right arm. “He shot me,” Megan Montgomery told medics, referring to her husband, who was a local police officer. At the time, police seized the man’s pistol and nine months later the state’s main law enforcement agency returned it, even though the charges of gender-based violence and an order of ‘ban were in effect.

Barely 16 days after that, McIntosh used the gun to shoot and kill his wife after another heated marital dispute.

The news of the return of the gun to a man deemed violent surprised those close to Megan, a marketing graduate and animal rescue enthusiast. “The restraining order may