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Three Dead in Delaware Courthouse Shooting in Wilmington
By Steven Church - Feb 11, 2013 11:31 AM ET
A shooting at a Delaware courthouse in Wilmington, home to the state’s Chancery Court, resulted in the deaths of at least three people, including the gunman, in a confrontation officials said stemmed from a custody dispute.
Five people were shot in the incident, state police Sergeant Paul G. Shavack said today in an interview. Police said it was unclear whether the two victims, both women, were shot by the assailant or by police. One of the women, the wife of the assailant according to the Associated Press, was there to attend a custody hearing, county official David Grimaldi said.
The shooter walked into the courthouse lobby and was confronted by police, sparking the exchange of gunfire, police said. The incident stemmed from a domestic dispute involving the gunman and his wife, said a person with direct knowledge of the matter who asked not to be identified.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Jerome Herlihy, who was on the tenth floor of the courthouse, said he heard about four shots at 8:10 a.m. followed by a child “screaming wildly.” The shooting took place on the ground floor of the courthouse in a lobby area with access to the public courthouse garage.
“The shots sounded like somebody was dropping a cement block on a metal roof,” Herlihy said in a telephone interview. Security officers escorted judges out of the building at 8:45 a.m., Herlihy said.
“Our thoughts and prayers right now are with the victims of this senseless violence,” Delaware Governor Jack Markell said in an e-mailed statement.
Two court security officers were wounded in the shooting. Their injuries aren’t life threatening, Shavack said. One was hit in the leg and the other in his bullet-proof vest, said Grimaldi.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-11/delaware-courthouse-shooting-results-in-at-least-two-people-dead.html
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