The gunman who killed 26 churchgoers in Texas escaped a mental health clinic in 2012, according to a police report.
El Paso officers who detained Devin Kelley were told he was "a danger to himself and others".
Kelley had been sent to the hospital after he was court-martialled for assaulting his ex-wife and stepson during his stint in the US Air Force.
He was "attempting to carry out death threats" against "his military chain of command", the report states.
Officials say the assault should have legally barred him from owning guns.
El Paso police arrested Kelley at a bus terminal in downtown El Paso on the evening of 7 June 2012, according to a police report first revealed by KPRC in Houston.
In the report, police wrote that Kelley had escaped from Peak Behavioral Health Services in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, about 100 miles (160km) away.
The person who reported him missing from the facility told police Kelley "suffered from mental disorders".
Kelley "had already been caught sneaking firearms onto Holloman Air Force Base", the report adds.
Later that year, Kelley pleaded guilty in a military court to repeatedly assaulting his wife and his toddler stepson.
He was sentenced to one year in a US Navy prison.
FBI investigators said on Tuesday they have been trying to unlock Kelley's mobile phone, to better understand what led him to carry out the mass shooting.
Survivors have been describing how Kelley went pew to pew in the church shooting crying children at point blank range.
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