An arrest warrant has been issued for a Colorado woman whose son was shot and killed by a police officer after he charged at the office with a knife and ignored forty on-camera demands to drop his weapon. Holmes is charged with two Class 4 felonies: suspicion of perjury and attempt to influence a public servant after she falsified her red flag/ERPO (extreme risk protection order) filing by claiming that the officer in question was the father of her adult son so as to satisfy one of the few filing requirements. Bizarrely, the hearing was allowed to go forth, but was finally dismissed and the judge called it for what it was:

Eighth Judicial District Chief Judge Stephen Howard denied Holmes’ petition in a Jan. 16 hearing. 

Smith had refused to serve the petition and the notice of the hearing to Morris, calling it “a fraud” in a Facebook post prior to the hearing. 

I wrote earlier this month about how Susan Holmes had tried to disarm the officer in question after she had called them in response to her son:

Jeremy Holmes was told over 40 times to drop his weapon. His mother called law enforcement to report that he had a weapon and the intent to kill his brother and sister-in-law. The encounter and shooting was captured on Morris’s body camera.

The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office has tried to serve her repeatedly but they can’t find her and have appealed to the public in their weekly most wanted notification:

I’m glad to see criminal penalties against this woman that abused the red flag system (this is rare; it’s only the second case I’ve ever heard of, many simply aren’t pursued) and tried to ruin the life of a police officer who simply responded to the call she made about her dangerous son. However, this is the problem with red flag laws: the poor construction of these laws and the absence of due process invite this.