Lafayette, Indiana
AP
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An Indiana state court docket judge and his wife have been in steady situation Monday as authorities continued to search for suspects who shot the couple the day earlier than at their Lafayette house.
Steven Meyer, a Tippecanoe Superior Court judge, suffered an harm to his arm and his wife, Kimberly Meyer, had a hip harm from the assault, authorities mentioned.
Officers responded Sunday afternoon to a report of a shooting in the residential space about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis to seek out the couple injured. They have been handled for their wounds, and officers recovered shell casings from the scene.
Lafayette Police mentioned the investigation stays energetic and entails native, state and federal companies. They haven’t launched a motive or suspect description.
Mayor Tony Roswarski assured the group that each out there useful resource was getting used to apprehend the particular person or individuals accountable for what he known as “this senseless unacceptable act of violence.”
Kimberly Meyer mentioned in a press release Monday that she has “great confidence” in investigators and is grateful to the officers and medical professionals who helped her and her husband.
The shooting had different Indiana judges nervous for their security, with state Supreme Court Chief Justice Loretta H. Rush urging them to “please remain vigilant in your own security.”
“I worry about the safety of all our judges,” she wrote in a letter to the state’s judges. “As you work to peacefully resolve more than 1 million cases a year, you must not only feel safe, you must also be safe. Any violence against a judge or a judge’s family is completely unacceptable.”