Judge says gunman who killed her son also targeted Justice Sotomayor

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A federal judge whose son was killed and whose husband was critically wounded in an attack at their home in New Jersey said in a televised interview released Friday that the gunman also had targeted Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas told CBS’s “60 Minutes” in an interview that will air Sunday that authorities found a locker used by the killer, Roy Den Hollander, a lawyer who had a case before Salas and who committed suicide after killing her 20-year-old son, Daniel, in the summer.

“They found another gun, a Glock, more ammunition,” Salas said. “But the most troubling thing they found was a manila folder with a work-up on Justice Sonia Sotomayor.” Continue reading.