ListenAnnunciation shooter didn’t trip alarms on ‘red flag laws,’ created to detect at-risk individuals
Investigators are still looking into what could have been missed in the runup to the shooting at Annunciation Church and School two weeks ago, which killed two children and injured 21 other people in Minneapolis.
The mass shooting transpired just a year after a “red flag” law, known as the Extreme Risk Protection Order, went into effect in the state with the goal of separating people from guns before they can hurt themselves or others. But the Annunciation shooter, Robin Westman, was untouched by the law or other legal safeguards like background checks because she didn’t have an adult criminal record and her family didn’t appear to raise concerns with law enforcement…