A pair of judges has concluded that Michael Gleason Jr. should have been held in preventative detention rather than released on $5,000 cash bail less than two months before he fatally shot his estranged wife and himself at a Berlin restaurant in July.

The 29-page report noted that in her April 28 petition for protection due to domestic violence, Marisol Fuentes, his wife, had written that she thought Gleason was “capable of seriously harming or killing her if he had the chance” and that she was afraid he would “retaliate against her” for going to police.

On July 6, Gleason killed Fuentes and himself at the La Casita Mexican Restaurant.

Four days earlier, an unnamed 17-year-old filed a civil stalking complaint alleging that Gleason had sexually assaulted her several times since Februar

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