The name of the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, appeared in the list of killed, led by a man who is said to have shot dead a retired Wisconsin judge on Friday, the governor’s office said on Saturday.
“Yesterday, our office was informed by law enforcement officials that Governor Whitmer’s name appeared on the Wisconsin shooter’s list,” a Whitmer spokesman told Reuters.
“While the news is deeply troubling, we will not comment further on the ongoing criminal investigation,” he added.
Wisconsin’s Justice Department says retired Judge John Roemer, 68, was found dead Friday at his home after a local sheriff’s office received a call about an “gunman and two shots fired at a New Lisbon residence.” .
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The department called this a “targeted” attack. It says that 56-year-old Douglas Ude was found in the basement of Roemer’s home with an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound. Firearms were found at the scene.
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The department said Uhde remained in critical condition in a medical facility.
“This” seems to be a deliberate action, and the suspect seems to have had other goals. It seems to be related to the judiciary, “Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul told a news conference on Friday.
In April, a federal jury acquitted two men of plotting to kidnap Whitmer in 2020 and went into a stalemate on the same charges against two other men.
(Report by Kanishka Singh in Washington; edited by Leslie Adler)
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