Texas Gunman Once Escaped From Mental Health Facility<br />A statement from the sheriff’s office said on Tuesday that the investigation had “stalled sometime in October 2013 for reasons yet to be determined.”<br />Mr. Kelley then moved to a recreational vehicle park in Colorado Springs, where four witnesses told the police<br />that they had seen Mr. Kelley chase down his white-and-brown Siberian husky and punch the dog four or five times, yelling at it, before dragging it into his camper, according to a report from the sheriff’s office in El Paso County, Colo. Mr. Kelley was charged with animal cruelty, pleaded guilty and received a deferred sentence, records show.<br />According to an El Paso Police Department report from June 2012, officers took Mr. Kelley, then 21, into custody at a bus station in downtown El Paso,<br />where he apparently planned to flee on a bus after escaping from Peak Behavioral Health Services, a hospital a few miles away in Santa Teresa, N. M.<br />He had gone to Peak Behavioral, whose services include a program for military personnel, after being charged in a military court with assaulting his wife<br />and baby stepson, charges he later pleaded guilty to.<br />The report filed by the El Paso officers says that the person who reported Mr. Kelley missing from the hospital advised them<br />that he “suffered from mental disorders,” and that he “was attempting to carry out death threats” against “his military chain of command.” The man “was a danger to himself and others as he had already been caught sneaking firearms onto Holloman Air Force Base,” it added.<br />The Air Force said that Mr. Kelley had been taken to the hospital while he was jailed<br />on the assault charges, and that it was still reviewing records of his case.<br />Mr. Pomeroy “didn’t like the guy,” the sheriff said, but did not feel he could turn Mr. Kelley away
