A Tennessee fugitive wanted for murdering a 15-year-old girl sat in a Slovenian jail this week after an international manhunt tracked him across continents — proving that when the political will exists, global law enforcement can close the net fast. Too bad that same urgency never applies to securing America's own southern border.

Seth Walls, 23, was arrested in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on September 12 after giving police a fake name, the U.S. Marshals Service announced. Fingerprints confirmed his identity. He's wanted for the September 2022 shooting death of Haley Reedy, 15, in Millington, Tennessee.

Here's the part that should outrage every American: Walls was charged with second-degree murder and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon. He posted a $10,000 bond and simply walked out of the system. He never returned to court. A murder suspect, out on ten grand, free to flee the country.

The Shelby County medical examiner determined Reedy died from a gunshot to the head at a downward angle, ruling out self-infliction, according to WMC-TV. A 15-year-old girl is dead, and the man accused of killing her was allowed to walk free on pocket change.

It took a full year after Reedy's death for the U.S. Marshals Service to even begin investigating Walls as a fugitive. His trail "led out of state and eventually out of the country," the agency said. Interpol eventually stepped in, distributing his fingerprints to law enforcement across member nations. That cooperation is what finally nailed him — Slovenian authorities, Interpol, and the Marshals working in lockstep.

Reedy's mother, Brandee Jones, expressed relief but seething frustration with local authorities. "I feel as if the local judicial system has let me down, as well as my daughter, for the last four years," she told The Tennessean. "They have put us on the runaround since the beginning. Never being able to get them on the phone, or answer questions pertaining [to] the case."

Millington Mayor Larry Dagen offered the standard politician's statement: "We recognize that no action can undo that loss, but we hope this significant development in the case provides an opportunity for justice to be done."

Meanwhile, back home, a 13-year-old girl in Springfield, Massachusetts had to be talked down by school staff after grabbing a knife from a maintenance area and threatening another student during the first week of school, MassLive reported. A school resource officer arrested her. Superintendent Sonia Dinnall said the district is investigating how the teen acquired the weapon.

The connective thread is plain: a system that can marshal Interpol, Slovenian authorities, and the U.S. Marshals to chase one fugitive across continents still can't keep weapons out of schools or stop murder suspects from walking free on bargain-basement bonds. And it certainly won't secure the southern border, where cartel operatives and criminal aliens cross daily with no Interpol bulletin waiting on the other side.

Walls is expected to be extradited from Slovenia, where he remains detained. It wasn't immediately clear whether he had retained legal counsel.

The question isn't whether international cooperation works. It does — when the establishment wants it to. The question is why American citizens don't rate the same urgency.