Person of interest in judge’s shooting arrested in Houston

A person arrested on unrelated charges in Houston will be questioned as a “person of interest” in the shooting of a Texas state judge outside her Austin home.

State Judge Julie Kocurek was shot and wounded late Friday as she returned to her home in an upscale area of Austin. Authorities said they believed the shooter was seeking revenge.

Most recently, the Associated Press reports, Kocurek, a former prosecutor appointed in January 1999 by then-Gov.

Travis County Court staffers are reviewing hundreds of felony cases in an effort to determine who would want to harm state District Judge Julie Kocurek. Sources tell KXAN that the initial investigation suggests Kocurek was targeted.

“A law enforcement official confirms to CNN that a suspect arrested on a fugitive warrant is being investigated in connection to the shooting attack of Travis County Judge Julie Kocurek”.

“Her injuries were the result of a firearm being deployed in an attempt to murder her”, the lead investigator in the case, Cmdr.

“But clearly in her job and the number of years she’s been on the bench she would have had to make a few enemies for doing her job”, he told CNN.

Baker died in her Austin home in 1988 and Mark Norwood is her accused killer.

A Texas district judge is now alert and able to speak to investigators. A plaintiff whose case Lefkow had dismissed claimed responsibility for the slayings in a suicide note.

Kocurek was shot Friday night in the driveway of her west Austin home.

Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland responded to that shooting by vowing to put away the “scum” who’d killed one of his top deputies. Two months later, McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found shot dead inside their home east of Dallas. Williams wasn’t put on trial for the death of Michael McLelland or Hasse, though authorities did accuse him in both killings.

“If this was going to happen to anybody, it wouldn’t happen to her”, said retired Judge Bob Perkins.

Boiled down: Judge Kocurek has handled a lot of violent people.