Since Jabara’s murder, his family has been advocating for legal reforms that they argue could have helped protect them. The first is to overhaul the courts’ bond review practices. Second, they think courts should be required to notify victims upon an inmate’s release, having learned that Majors was out on bond before he killed Kahlid Jabara only through their own vigilant checks of the courts’ online public records system.

Khalid Jabara had called the police twice on the afternoon of the shooting, Aug. 12, 2016, after receiving information from Majors’ late husband that Majors had been shooting a gun inside their residence, which was next door to the Jabara family’s house. Officers attempted to make contact with Majors, but he didn’t answer the door, so they left. Less than 10 minutes after that call, Majors shot and killed Khalid Jabara.

Majors had a long criminal history that included harassment, threats and violence against the Jabara family.

He had been accused of subjecting the Jabaras to years of threats and ethnic slurs, assuming that the Lebanese, Orthodox Christian family were Muslims. At the time of the shooting, he was out on bond on felony charges accusing him of having struck Khalid Jabara’s mother, Haifa Jabara, with his car and left her for dead on a neighborhood street.