After the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) received an anonymous tip warning that Deon McKay, a “multi-convicted felon,” was living with his girlfriend and still had access to guns, an investigation into McKay began.
The tipster, who prosecutors said McKay had already threatened to kill, warned police that McKay was “a felon who is in possession of firearms” and was having his girlfriend purchase firearms for him.
“Mr. McKay threatened that person’s life,” a prosecutor said during McKay’s detention hearing April 13. “The threat was made… in a verbal conversation. We believe the defendant is a danger to that victim – who happens to be the mother of a couple of his kids.”…