#BlackRobesMatter
Damn Trump! Now he’s getting judges shot!
I mean, no judge was ever shot during Obama’s....oh...uh...er...never mind!
“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.
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 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.**
. In a bizarre twist, the shooter was identified by authorities on Monday afternoon as Nathaniel Richmond, father of one of the two teenage boys found delinquent - or guilty - in 2013 as part of that rape case.
Jane Hanlin, prosecutor for Jefferson County, identified Richmond as the shooter and said authorities do not believe there was any connection whatsoever between the shooting and Richmond’s son, Ma’lik.
Bruzzese had “nothing at all to do with that particular case,” Hanlin said during an afternoon briefing, noting that it was handled by a judge from another area.
However, Hanlin said authorities still did not know what might have motivated Monday’s shooting. She said Nathaniel Richmond did have a criminal history and was involved in a pending case, but it was unclear if that case had anything to do with the shooting.
During additional remarks to reporters Monday afternoon, Abdalla described Bruzzese as an avid hunter and sportsman. The sheriff said that years earlier, he had urged Bruzzese to carry a weapon with him for protection due to all of the “nutcases” around the country.
“With all the nuts running around, I encouraged him to get a weapon,” Abdalla said. “And he did.”