The Latest: Man accused of killing 5 had battery conviction
The Kansas City, Kansas, municipal court clerk's office says Serrano-Vitorino was convicted in 2015 of battery.
The Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department says when he was booked on that charge the sheriff's department sent ICE an overnight query about him, but didn't receive a response from ICE in the period required, so he was released.
The federal agency that handles immigration says it sent a September order to detain a man accused of killing five people to an agency that didn't have him in custody.
Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino has been charged with first-degree murder in the Monday shooting deaths of his Kansas City, Kansas, neighbor and three other men and the killing of a man in central Missouri early Tuesday.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in an email that Serrano-Vitorino was deported from the U.S. in 2004, but was fingerprinted in Overland Park, Kansas, in September 2015 after traffic violations.
A Mexican national accused of killing five people appeared in a suburban Kansas City court last year for traffic violations, but local authorities say there was no indication he should have been detained.
Federal investigators are trying to determine how a Mexican national suspected of five shooting deaths in Kansas and Missouri acquired an assault-style rifle found on him when he was caught.
John Ham, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives office in Kansas City, said Wednesday that federal law barred Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino from legally owning a gun because he is in the country illegally.
Serrano-Vitorino is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four men late Monday at his neighbor's house in Kansas City, Kansas.
Wyandotte County prosecutors have charged Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino with four counts of first-degree murder in the killing of the men at his neighbor's home late Monday.
The Missouri Highway Patrol says a man wanted in connection with the fatal shootings of five people is in custody after a manhunt.