A Mass Shooting That Didn’t Happen Today

David Harris is wrong: The perp was not convicted of felonies in those cases.

In 2012, a district judge in Oklahoma ruled him mentally incompetent to stand trial and ordered him committed to a psychiatric facility for treatment.

Kinnunen was charged with felony assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after he attacked the owner of a Chickasha, Oklahoma, doughnut shop in 2011, court records state. He was separately charged with arson that year after allegedly starting a fire in a cotton field by tying tampons soaked in lamp oil to the crop.

Earlier on the day of that fire, Kinnunen soaked a football in the accelerant, lit it on fire and threw it back and forth with his son, who was a minor, according to the arrest affidavit. The boy told police he was afraid his father would get mad if he asked to stop.


A forensic psychologist who examined Kinnunen in 2012 for both cases wrote that “Kinnunen currently evidences signs that are consistent with a substantial mental illness and that meet the inpatient criteria of a ‘person requiring treatment.’”

Records show that Kinnunen was found competent to stand trial in February 2013. However, both criminal cases were ultimately reduced to misdemeanors, to which he pleaded guilty.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/minister-texas-gunman-grew-angry-153033552.html
 
thallub said:
David Harris is wrong: The perp was not convicted of felonies in those cases.
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That's what I read, also.

And I'm not able to comment on whether a finding of "not competent to stand trial" (which was later changed to "competent") meets the criteria for being "adjudicated as mentally defective" for purposes of federal firearms prohibition.
 
Without looking up the actual trial records, that type of finding of incompetence is enough to make you a prohibited person in ANY of the fifty states. However, it has to be reported to NICS by the state judicial system to trigger NICS.

In 2012, there would have been federal grants available specifically for that purpose due to the NRA-supported NICS Improvement Act of 2007. However, as the Sutherland Springs shooting showed, there was still lots of information not being reported. Fix NICS Act - an improvement of the improvement - passed in the 2017-2018 session. So that would have been another opportunity to get those records into the system.

My guess would be that he wasn’t reported during the trial and once he was found competent, he wasn’t reported as having been adjudicated mentally ill - much like the VA Tech shooter wasn’t reported by the state because they didn’t want to make him a prohibited person (which is essentially a lifetime ban now as Congress has funded ATF appeals for decades).
 
Governor Greg Abbot awarded the Governor's Medal of Courage to Mr. Jack Wilson in a ceremony in Austin. Then during the ceremony, Gov. Abbot called Mr. Wilson a hero for stopping the shooter, Keith Kinnunen, before the incident became more disastrous than it could have been.
 
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