Posted on 08/21/2017 7:20:18 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio officials say a county judge was shot and wounded as he walked toward a courthouse, and the suspect was killed when a probation officer returned fire.
Jefferson County Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. was shot Monday morning near the county courthouse in Steubenville, along the Ohio River roughly 30 miles west of Pittsburgh.
Steubenville City Manager James Mavromatis tells WTOV-TV that Bruzzese was talking after being wounded. He was flown to a Pittsburgh-area hospital.
Investigators didn't immediately release further information about the judge's condition or the suspect.
The suspect's body could be seen lying next to a car of a neighboring bank drive-thru. Police say a man who was in a car with the suspected shooter was taken into custody.
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#BlackRobesMatter
And yet there's not even a description of the body of the shooter. Was it a Martian?
....a “black male taken in to custody...
Feet first.
Damn Trump! Now he’s getting judges shot!
I mean, no judge was ever shot during Obama’s....oh...uh...er...never mind!
In my googling, it appears that the good judge has run for office as a Democrat. So it is very likely that the MSM will try to construct some dots to connect this to Trump.
Are you sure he was Black? Might be a case of “Fatal Morgue-ana”....
Bruzzese Hanlin Steubenville Corruption
Have not read through this. Dem backroom deal makers ?
“Investigators didn’t immediately release further information about the judge’s condition or the suspect.”
This is great reporting, isn’t it. The judge’s condition is in question. The suspect is dead, Jim. What further info is needed on him? He isn’t at large. And what else is required other than they didn’t toss him out in the desert somewhere for the vultures to eat? This idiot is getting ink on the slab. Stupid.
rwood
Steubenville is a mobbed up little burg. Lots of weekend poker games there among members of certain families. Lots of deals get negotiated then.
On the plus side, Steubenville did give the world Dean Martin and Traci Lords.
Democrat politics = corruption
“We’re starting to put this whole picture together, but basically what you have is the judge is going to work, these subjects were waiting for them. He comes up, shoots at the judge. The judge returns fire,” Mavromatis said. “We also have a probation officer that was behind the judge. He returns fire as he is shot at. The subject is deceased that he shot at. “This probation officer has done his job. He reacted to the threat, trying to save the judge and any other bystander that may have been in the area.”
Witnesses said they heard multiple gunshots.
"My alarm went off at 8 a.m., and I snoozed it, and a minute or two later, I heard approximately seven or eight gunshots, and I went to look out the window and I seen somebody in a white shirt, probably a detective, kneeling down firing at something, and that’s when I knew something happened down here," witness Cody Allison said.
Saw on Twitter that the suspect was the father of Ma’lik Richmond, one of the defendants in the Steubenville rape case a few years back.
Btw, that case was disgusting.
Irony is a Democrat judge getting shot by a favored constituency.
CBS spun the story earlier this morning that a bailiff shot the attacker, but now it’s coming out that the judge defended himself. Took a little time for CBS to wrap their head around successful CCW.
They still haven’t given a description of the suspect(s), which is of itself a description.
I should know better than believe something I see on Twitter . . .
I guess this is why they basically strip search you when you go into the court house these days.
**Police said a man apparently waiting for Judge Joseph J. Bruzzese Jr., who sits on the Jefferson County Court of Common Pleas, ran up to the judge and began shooting when he approached the courthouse. Bruzzese drew a gun and fired at least five rounds at the shooter, possibly hitting the attacker, Jefferson County Sheriff Fred J. Abdalla told reporters during emotional remarks Monday morning.**
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