Posted on 10/20/2023 2:00:18 AM PDT by Libloather
A Maryland judge was killed in an apparent shooting at his home Thursday evening in what police described as a homicide.
Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, had served as an associate circuit court judge in Washington County since 2020.
He was found in the driveway of his home in the western Maryland city of Hagerstown around 8 p.m. after local police responded to a shooting on Olde Waterford Road.
Wilkinson was hospitalized but later pronounced dead, according to the county sheriff's office.
A state delegate said that police are still searching for the suspect, who has not yet been named. A motive for the shooting has not been released.
'Horrible news in Washington County tonight,' Neil Parrott, who represents Washington County, wrote on X.
'It appears that Judge Andrew Wilkinson was shot multiple times and has passed away. Police are actively searching for the murderer.'
'Please pray for our police and for Judge Wilkinson's family at this time.'
The Washington County Sheriff's Office has not released any further details about Wilkinson's killing.
'We are a courthouse of six judges,' Administrative Judge Brett R. Wilson, a colleague, told the New York Times. 'We all know each other very well.'
Born in Guam in 1971, he previously served as an assistant county attorney in Washington County from 2006 to 2012.
He also served as a member of the State Board of Law Examiners' Character Committee from 2006 to 2019.
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Gay affair?
Supposedly the killer is a father who was mad because the judge ruled against him in a custody battle, so very unlikely there is a gay angle to the story. I don’t know how they know who the killer is.
At the West Virginia Eastern border, near Morgantown. The question should be, "Where does it end?"
Anyone that can read a map can 100% verify where Western MD begins, how far East is still considered "Western MD"?
Except communists, Nazis, Muzloids, Jacobins etc.
History has proven over and over that societal ghouls need to either be killed or live in fear of being killed - or the cancer kills the community at large.
Frederick has been the canonical answer for half a century. But 270 is bringing MoCo north and northwest.
Hagerstown is just far enough out that it would be a very formidable commute to DC. I don’t have a sense of how many people may do that. I’ve known people who commuted from Winchester and Harrisburg (just one, to be fair), so I assume there must be a few.
For all its faults, Montgomery County is still holding the line on development through its “Agricultural Reserve” in western MoCo. Preservation and anti-sprawl groups are also still blocking another Potomac River bridge, which the Fairfax and Rockville carheads desperately want.
As you know, the world here is divided between people who think DC is too big already vs. those who there’s money to be made in feeding the cancer.
Those kind of activities don’t remain in the headlines for long. If you want to see more of that activity just read a history of WW2 which covers the spies, espionage, assassinations, and sabotage which went on in WW2.
I lived in Hagerstown/Funkstown/Sharpsburg for 15 years then bought property outside of Martinsburg and lived there another 15 or so years. I commuted to the southern MD, DC and even Baltimore, the entire time.
She is going through a very rough patch.
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South Mountain is generally considered the line where The Wilderness starts.
Every time some liberal “army” swears they’re coming out to the rural areas I instantly think “ they’ll never make it over South Mountain “.
Western Maryland is less about geography than a state of mind.
Pedro.
Now there’s a nice native hillbilly name.
Salamander is comfortably west of that wretched liberal infested pockmark of a town.
Ironically we call Hagerstown ‘Baltimore West’.
Hancock is where West Virginia begins.
:)
Gundog wins this round.
;)
Ya freaked me out.
Pedro...Jethro...close enough.
You misspelled “ ninth circle of Hell”.
They’re searching for a man named Argote who appeared before the judge that morning in a divorce case, with his estranged wife. Sounds like he didn’t like the way the case was going.
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