GUILTY TX - Judge Julie Kocurek shot, injured at her Austin home, 6 Nov 2015

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Police said the shooting was reported at 10:16 p.m. Kocurek had just returned home and was accompanied by others when she was shot, police Cmdr. Mark Spangler said. No one else with the judge was shot.

A neighbor of Kocurek’s told the American-Statesman that she “just heard four pops.”

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Most recently, she was overseeing the case of Mark Norwood, who was convicted in the infamous 1986 killing of Christine Morton and is now facing charges in the 1988 death of Debra Baker. She also was presiding over the case of Dara Llorens, who was arrested in Mexico for the 2002 kidnapping of her daughter, Sabrina Allen.

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/travis-county-judge-julie-kocurek-shot-outside-hom/npH5r/
 
Thank goodness it seems her injuries are not life threatening. Hopefully the answers will come from her.
 
Article linked above reports the Judge was accompanied by others when she was shot...

Hopefully the witnesses will be able to provide clues to LE...

Pretty brazen to shoot a judge with witnesses there, isn't it? Wow.
 
Judge Kocurek is currently in stable condition. Sources tell KXAN she was admitted into ICU for observation. Sources also say that the Judge received injuries to the upper body, but that it was not a direct hit. The injuries are to her upper body, mostly the left shoulder and face area.

Investigators have not said whether or not the shooting is connected to her work as a judge. Sources tell KXAN that the initial investigation suggests Judge Kocurek was targeted.

http://kxan.com/2015/11/07/travis-county-judge-shot-outside-home/

Lousy shot or trying to hit her face?
 
Police said the shooting occurred as Kocurek and her family arrived home, and it was unclear whether the shooter was targeting the judge or the incident was a botched robbery.

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Spangler told reporters that because the shooting was at night and in the dark, there was little information available to police about the gunman, and it was unclear how many suspects might be involved. Police arrived about five minutes after the shooting was reported.

Police conducted a search for the gunman late Friday and handed out flyers Saturday seeking information related to the shooting. The judge lives in a wealthy area of $1 million and $2 million homes, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Pictures at link:


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...r-texas-judge-shot-outside-her-home/75361290/
 
There should be plenty of security cameras in that neighborhood. Hopefully, there were some good images taken of the perp even though it was at night. I'm sure there are also floodlights at most of the homes. Hoping LE can gather enough information to ID the perpetrator.
 
There should be plenty of security cameras in that neighborhood. Hopefully, there were some good images taken of the perp even though it was at night. I'm sure there are also floodlights at most of the homes. Hoping LE can gather enough information to ID the perpetrator.

Good idea regarding the likelihood of many security cameras in that neighborhood...

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A loving wife, a caring mother, and a well-respected judge. It's the last person former State District Judge Jon Wisser thought would be involved in an attack.

The local legal community is rattled after the shooting of State District Judge Julie Kocurek Friday night. Kocurek is in serious condition, but she is expected to live after the incident which happened outside her West Austin home.

"Very pleasant person. When you think of judges who might get people angry, and want to take a shot at them, she's certainly the opposite of that," said Judge Jon Wisser, a former state district court judge.

Wisser worked alongside Judge Julie Kocurek before she was elected to the bench.

"Considered rationale, reasonable. You know you read about judges belittling people, yelling at people, calling people words -- that's not her at all. If you ask me to list judges that would make people angry with them, she would be near the bottom of the list in Travis County," Wisser added.

http://www.cbs19.tv/story/30464937/judicial-community-devastated-by-judges-shooting
 
The Austin American-Statesman's Tony Plohetski reported Sunday that Kocurek had been threatened several times in the past couple of years. "Law enforcement sources said Sunday that they still think the shooting Friday night probably was tied to Kocurek’s work as a judge, even though such attacks on judges are fairly infrequent," Plohetski wrote. "The attacker apparently made no demands for money or property during the brief encounter, leading investigators to think robbery was not the motive."

http://www.texastribune.org/2015/11/09/brief/
 
State District Judge Julie Kocurek appears to have been seriously injured by shrapnel and broken glass — rather than a direct hit from a bullet — during what officials described with more certainty Sunday as an assassination attempt.

That information, from law enforcement officials involved in the investigation, came as court staffers and police continued reviewing hundreds of felony cases in Kocurek’s court for anyone who might have wanted to harm her.

Sources told the American-Statesman that Kocurek had been the victim of several threats in the past couple of years that were reported to police at the time. Investigators are now trying to determine whether the suspects from those threats are incarcerated or possibly in the Austin area.

Law enforcement sources said Sunday that they still think the shooting Friday night probably was tied to Kocurek’s work as a judge, even though such attacks on judges are fairly infrequent. The attacker apparently made no demands for money or property during the brief encounter, leading investigators to think robbery was not the motive.

Police also spent much of Sunday trying to determine whether other homes in the West Austin neighborhood might have security video and if cellphone tower information could reveal who was in the area at the time of the shooting.

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/investigator-kocurek-shooting-was-murder-attempt/npJcS/
 
Something tells me the LE has... Or will soon... Find the perp...

I am encouraged that there seems to be plentiful security videos to view...

JMO...
 
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A suspect is in custody in Houston in connection with the shooting of Travis County Judge Julie Kocurek, federal sources say.

[....]

A law enforcement official confirmed to CNN that a suspect arrested on a fugitive warrant is being investigated in connection to the shooting attack on Kocurek. CNN says the official stopped short of calling the person a suspect as the man has not yet been criminally charged with Friday night’s shooting.

Read more at ...

http://kxan.com/2015/11/09/judge-attacked-in-shooting-able-to-speak-with-officers/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/texas-judge-shot-home-appeared-targeted-cops-article-1.2428186

http://www.click2houston.com/news/s...ection-with-shooting-of-austin-judge/36354796


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A source close to the family tells KEYE-TV Kocurek's son was driving when they approached her home and found a trash bag blocking the gated entrance. Her son exited the car to move the bag -- and that's when, according to the source, an unknown person ran towards the car and shot Kocurek multiple times.

Read more at ...

http://wset.com/news/nation-world/f...ollowing-shooting-of-travis-co-district-judge
 

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