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.

  • @Syringe
    6•9 months ago

    It’s… Hagerstown. It’s completely unsurprising.

    It’s where one of the big prisons is. When people get out, they get stuck there for one reason or another. Halfway homes and POs are there, they don’t have anywhere to go back to, your prison bodies live there now. A bunch of reasons.

    It’s not a particularly violent place, but it sort of is like a whole city compromised of Florida Man, but without the publicity.