Maryland State Police troopers have been “dispatched to protect other judges” after a circuit court judge was killed Thursday night, CNN affiliate WJLA reported.

Judge Andrew Wilkinson was killed in an apparent shooting in the northern Maryland city of Hagerstown, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said.

Deputies responded to a report of a shooting around 8 p.m. and found Wilkinson in a residential driveway suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wounds, the sheriff’s office said.

The judge was taken to a medical facility where he later died, according to the sheriff’s office.

As the investigation unfolds, “Maryland State Troopers are being dispatched to protect other judges,” WJLA reported.

CNN has reached out to Maryland State Police for more information.

  • athos77
    10•1 year ago

    He’s a circuit judge, meaning he generally handles more serious criminal cases and major civil cases. I wasn’t able to find any news articles in the past year for the cases he was working on, so we’ll need to wait for more information.

    That said, I’m somewhat less inclined to believe it’s a right-wing nutjob, because usually the victim would have been mentioned in some kind of news article about whatever the MAGAts were upset about now.