The New Jersey federal judge whose son was killed and husband badly wounded by a deranged lawyer during an ambush at their home says she made a vow after the tragedy. âMy son gave his life for his father and I. I have to look at that and say, âWhat a gift,ââ Judge Esther Salas told ABCâs âGood Morning Americaâ in an interview set to air Tuesday.
By Jonathan Dienst, Brian Thompson, Joe Valiquette and Tim Stelloh Authorities believe an attorney found dead in New York on Monday was the shooter who killed a New Jersey federal judge's son and wounded her husband, law enforcement sources with knowledge told NBC New York.
He killed a lawyer nearby. Credit... An openly misogynistic lawyer who is believed to have killed the son of a female federal judge in New Jersey had a list of more than a dozen other possible targets, including three other judges and two doctors, three people with knowledge of the matter said.
The gun found near Mr. Den Hollanderâs body was the same caliber weapon that was used in the killing of Mr. Angelucci and the shooting that left Judge Salasâs son dead and her husband wounded, law enforcement officials have said. The judge was in the basement at the time of the shooting.
Roy Den HollanderShe was back on the bench Monday, nearly eight months after a gunman named Roy Den Hollander, a "men's rights" lawyer and frequent litigant, shot her husband Mark and son Daniel Anderl at their North Brunswick home.
In July 2020, Daniel Anderl, the son of federal Judge Esther Salas and attorney Mark Anderl, was shot dead by a gunman at the front door of the family's New Jersey home. Daniel Anderl, 20, took a bullet to his chest trying to protect his parents. By the time Judge Salas came to the door, the killer was gone.
Death. The day after the attack on Salas's family, Den Hollander was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Rockland, near Liberty in Sullivan County, upstate New York. A list of judges, doctors, and other targets was found in a rental car chartered by Den Hollander on the road where his body was found.
Roy Den HollanderJudge Ester Salas' 20-year-old son, Daniel, was fatally shot and her husband what injured last summer when Manhattan lawyer and self-described antifeminist Roy Den Hollander posed as a deliveryman and opened fire at her home.
Roy Den Hollander was captured on a surveillance camera in Union Station in Los Angeles. He killed a lawyer nearby. Credit... An openly misogynistic lawyer who is believed to have killed the son of a female federal judge in New Jersey had a list of more than a dozen other possible targets, including three other judges and two doctors, ...
The list was found on Monday inside a rented car on a rural road in the Catskills in New York, where the lawyer, Roy Den Hollander, 72, had killed himself.
In 2015, he filed a federal lawsuit in federal court in Newark challenging the male-only military draft and the case was assigned to Judge Salas. Mr. Angelucci had filed a similar lawsuit in another jurisdiction two years earlier.
Angelucci was also shot on his doorstep. Judge Salas and Mr. Angelucci were included on the list found in the rental car, along with at least 10 other people with whom Mr. Den Hollander apparently had scores to settle, including three jurists: New York Stateâs chief judge, another federal judge in New Jersey, and a state judge in Manhattan who, ...
The judge escaped unharmed. Investigators have now concluded that Mr. Den Hollander traveled eight days earlier by train to California to murder Marc Angelucci, 52, a menâs rights lawyer whom he considered a professional rival. Mr.
The judge was in the basement at the time of the shooting. The authorities have conducted tests on the pistol to determine if it is the gun that was used in the two killings, several officials have said, but the results have not been made public.
âMy son gave his life for his father and I. I have to look at that and say, âWhat a gift,ââ Judge Esther Salas told ABCâs âGood Morning Americaâ in an interview set to air Tuesday.
Salasâ son, Daniel Anderl, was shot dead July 19 by anti-feminist, race-hate-spouting Manhattan lawyer Roy Den Hollander â who had disguised himself as a FedEx driver for his attack.
FBI agents found that the lawyer, Roy Den Hollander, had "a manila folder with a workup on Justice Sonia Sotomayor," the judge said. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during the 2019 Supreme Court Fellows Program annual lecture at the Library of Congress, in Washington, on Feb. 14, 2019. Jose Luis Magana / AP file.
Authorities have said Den Hollander, a menâs rights lawyer with a history of anti-feminist writings, posed as a FedEx delivery person and fatally shot 20-year-old Daniel Anderl and wounded his father, Mark Anderl, in July. Salas was in another part of the home at the time and was not injured.
Den Hollander, 72, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the day after the ambush. Authorities believe he also shot and killed a fellow attorney in California in the days before the attack at Salasâ home.
Authorities believe an attorney found dead in New York on Monday was the shooter who killed a New Jersey federal judge's son and wounded her husband, law enforcement sources with knowledge told NBC New York.
Several law enforcement officials said Monday that investigators are also looking into whether Hollander was involved in the killing last week of a well-known men's rights lawyer, Marc Angelucci.
MORE: 'Anti-feminist' lawyer identified as shooter who killed Judge Esther Salas' son then self. Hollander allegedly posed as a FedEx employee when he approached Salas' home and shot her husband, Mark Anderl, and her son, Daniel Anderl, 20, before escaping in a car, according to sources.
Suspect in federal judge ambush linked to 2nd murder. Roy Den Hollander, suspected of killing a federal judge's son and wounding her husband in New Jersey before committing suicide, is now also suspected of killing a lawyer in California. As a federal judge, Esther Salas has presided over thousands of cases.
Daniel Anderl died from his injuries, and Mark Anderl was critically injured and rushed to the hospital. Salas was unharmed. On Monday, Hollander was found dead by police in an apparent suicide, according to investigators. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images.
The court docket did not indicate a reason for his replacement, though a managing partner for Boies Schiller Flexner told CNN that Hollander asked the law firm to take over the case because he was terminally ill. In Hollander's autobiography, he wrote that he was diagnosed with melanoma in 2018.
A female teenager sued the Selective Service System five years ago because she could not register for the male-only draft. In her most recent opinion on the case, filed in spring 2019, Salas sided with part of the plaintiff's argument, allowing the lawsuit to move forward.
Hollander is also the leading suspect in the murder of an attorney in California earlier this month, multiple law enforcement sources told ABC News. According to sources, officials are investigating whether the attacks were grudge killings committed by Hollander after he knew he was dying.
Salas was not injured. US marshals and the FBI are investigating. That civil rights suit appears to be the only time Hollander argued before Salas in court. More insights into the case, and Hollander's feelings toward Salas, may be gleaned from an autobiography published on his personal website.
The son of Judge Esther Salas was shot and killed, and her husband shot and injured in an attack at the family's New Jersey home on Sunday night.
A man walks past the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas on July 20, 2020, in North Brunswick, N.J., ...
Den Hollander's body was discovered in a car by a municipal employee in the town of Rockland, New York. He died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the sources said. New York State Police were on scene and the FBI was called. A FedEx package addressed to Judge Salas was discovered in the car, sources said.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters. A New York State Trooper stands guard outside the home of attorney Roy Den Hollander, who was found dead after allegedly killing the son ...
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy called the shooting "a brazen and cowardly act of gun violence at their home in North Brunswick. We give our full support to Judge Salas and her husband at this most trying time. This is an unconscionable tragedy.".
Salas was not hurt in the attack. Her son, Daniel Anderl, 20, died, Francis "Mac" Womack, the mayor of North Brunswick, New Jersey, told ABC News. Salas' husband, Mark Anderl, is in critical but stable condition as of Monday morning, according to law enforcement sources. The suspect was a white man who wore a face covering and a FedEx uniform, ...
Judge Esther Salas told ABC's "Good Morning America" that she has forgiven the killer who showed up to her family's home disguised as a deliveryman. YouTube. A New Jersey judge said sheâs moving forward, but not moving on, a year after a crazed lawyer killed her son in an attack meant for her. Federal Judge Esther Salas told ABCâs âGood Morning ...
NJ judge whose son was killed speaks out one year after ambush. Judge Esther Salas told ABC's "Good Morning America" that she has forgiven the killer who showed up to her family's home disguised as a deliveryman. YouTube.
Roy Den Hollander, an âanti-feministâ lawyer who had argued a case before Salas, tracked the judge down to her North Brunswick home and blasted away when Mark opened the door, striking the husband and her son. Den Hollander later shot himself dead.