Douglas K. Uhde appears in a Wisconsin Department of Corrections booking photo dated March 17, 2020. The 6’4″ Uhde was listed in DOC records as having “absconded” from active community supervision.
A Wisconsin man who killed a judge and then wounded himself Friday morning had been previously sentenced to serve nine years in prison by the same judge he attacked. That’s according to statements by the Wisconsin Department of Justice and state court records.
The case that connected alleged triggerman Douglas K. Uhde and Judge John Roemer was a burglary and weapons case which resulted in a legally awkward appeal, but Uhde’s criminal history is much more complicated.
AG Says Judge Shot, Killed in “Targeted Attack”
The Wisconsin DOJ alleged late Saturday afternoon that Uhde, now 56, shot and killed Roemer, 68, in the retired judge’s Town of New Lisbon home. New Lisbon is in Juneau County about an hour and twenty minutes northwest of Madison.
The DOJ said someone else was also in the home when the attack started around 6:30 a.m. That someone, whose identity is not clear, managed to escape to a neighbor’s house to call for help. Law enforcement responded, and a standoff ensued. Attempts at a negotiation failed, according to the DOJ.
Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge John P. Roemer appears in a photo taken from a 2009 judicial branch newsletter. The same photo appeared in a 2004 newsletter.
A tactical team moved in around 10:17 a.m., the DOJ said. Officers found the judge dead in his own home and Uhde in the basement suffering from…
