A former Democrat judge was killed in his Wisconsin home in a targeted attack, officials say

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(CNN)A former Wisconsin judge was killed Friday in what
authorities are calling a targeted attack by a suspect who also
had other government officials as targets, a source familiar
with the investigation told CNN.

Former Juneau County Circuit Court Judge John Roemer was killed
in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, the source said. The killing stems
from a court case or cases, the Wisconsin Justice Department
explained.

The suspect, who has not been publicly identified, had other
targets in mind -- including Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the source told CNN.
Another source corroborated the officials' names to CNN.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel first reported the judge was the
victim and that the governor had also been a target.

"This as I mentioned before does appear to be a targeted act and
the individual who is a suspect appears to have had other
targets as well.

It appears to be related to the judicial system," Wisconsin
Attorney General Josh Kaul said Friday in a news conference,
stopping short of naming the victim.

Kaul added that investigators are not aware of any evidence that
points to danger for other people, noting the probe is ongoing.

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A retired Juneau County judge who was gunned down in his home
Friday morning had sentenced his alleged killer to six years in
prison for armed burglary and other weapons charges in 2005,
online court records show.

Douglas K. Uhde, 56, shot and killed John Roemer, 68, after
entering the judge's home in the town of Lisbon around 6:30
a.m., the state Department of Justice said in a statement
Saturday.

Law enforcement officers tried to negotiate with Uhde before
entering the residence around 10:15 a.m., the DOJ said. In the
home, they found Roemer dead and zip-tied to a chair and Uhde in
the basement with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a law
enforcement official told The Associated Press on condition of
anonymity.

Uhde was taken to the hospital and remains in critical
condition, the DOJ said.

Investigators have said Uhde planned to target other government
officials and found a list in his vehicle that included Roemer,
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, said the official
who was not authorized to discuss details of the investigation
publicly.

The 56-year-old has an extensive criminal and prison record
spanning at least two decades.

In 2005, Uhde was convicted in Adams County Circuit Court of
burglary while armed and other weapons offenses, including
possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle.

Roemer was not the judge at the time the case was initially
tried in 2002 but did preside over the withdraw of Uhde's no
contest plea and subsequent reconviction after a court of
appeals reversed his earlier conviction, sentencing him to six
years in prison and nine years of extended supervision.

Uhde has later convictions for escape/criminal arrest, fleeing
an officer, driving a stolen vehicle and obstructing police.

His 2005 conviction came at the end of a lengthy series of court
fights in the case, which began with an incident in August 2001.
After pleading no contest in 2002, Uhde pursued an appeal and
succeeded in withdrawing his plea, according to online court
records.

After his attorney withdrew from the case, Uhde appears to have
represented himself, was reconvicted and appealed again.

For his subsequent offenses, Uhde was sentenced — by other
judges — first to 9 months in jail for the escape in 2007, and
then seven years in prison and four years of extended
supervision for fleeing police and driving a vehicle without the
owner's permission in 2008.

According to court records, the escape conviction came after
Uhde walked away from a job site in Baraboo while an inmate at
the Fox Lake Correctional Institution. He pleaded no contest in
Dodge County and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He
appealed the conviction because the job site was in Sauk County,
but the appeal was denied.

After Uhde escaped, a truck owned by Easter Seals was reported
stolen in Wisconsin Dells. Rome police found a salt spreader and
other items that had been in the truck 10 days later.

Uhde's former girlfriend told police she was afraid Uhde might
come to her house. She received three phones calls from him the
next day, according to court records. Uhde told her he was
driving a newer pickup truck. Police tracked the call to a pay
phone and put the truck under surveillance.

Two days later, a woman spotted Uhde standing in his ex-
girlfiend's yard. Later that night, police saw a truck fitting
the description of the one Uhde was driving outside the ex-
girlfriend's home and where she worked.

When police got closer, the truck drove away. Following a high-
speed chase, Uhde drove the truck into a ditch and field,
causing it to burst into flames. Officers found Uhde hiding near
a log after he was tracked by a police K9.

Records show Uhde was released on community supervision in 2015,
but was returned to prison in 2019. He was released from prison
on April 14, 2020, and was under community supervision at the
time of the shooting.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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