Judge Esther Salas was not harmed when a gunman dressed in a delivery uniform opened fire.
Investigators believe that federal judge Esther Salas was the „intended target“ of the Sunday attack at her New Jersey home that killed her son and critically wounded her husband, a law enforcement source told CBS News. Salas was in the basement at the time of the attack and was not hurt, but her husband remains in critical condition. Multiple law enforcement sources told CBS News the suspect,72-year-old attorney Roy Den Hollander, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was found in a car in upstate New York. The FBI confirmed Den Hollander’s death. The suspect came to the house wearing a FedEx uniform and a COVID-style mask, sources confirmed. When investigators later found him, they discovered a package addressed to Salas in his car. Den Hollander had a history of pursuing what he called „antifeminist“ lawsuits. He had previously been an attorney in a case before Salas in which a female plaintiff argued that it was unconstitutional to prevent women from registering for the draft. Den Hollander had been involved in other gender-related lawsuits in the past, including one in which he sued Columbia University claiming its women’s studies program represented „bigotry against men.
