A bail fund promoted by Vice President Kamala Harris let free an alleged domestic abuser weeks before authorities arrested him and charged him with murder, the group announced Friday.

The organization, the Minnesota Freedom Fund, said it was aware of reports “of the tragic and fatal shooting” in Minneapolis involving 48-year-old George Howard, who was charged in the Hennepin County District Court with two counts of second-degree murder in connection with a shooting that occurred on Aug. 31, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Star Tribune.