Ohio judge shot outside courthouse: What we know now

Just after 8 a.m. on Monday, Judge Joseph J. Bruzzese Jr. was ambushed by Nathaniel Richmond on the steps of the Jefferson County Courthouse in Steubenville, officials say.

Here is what we know about this developing story:

Bruzzese taken away in a helicopter. A city official said Bruzzese was talking after the shooting and was transported by a medical helicopter to a hospital for treatment. The judge underwent surgery at a Pittsburgh-area hospital but is expected to survive.

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The shooter. The shooter was identified as 51-year-old Nathaniel Richmond, who was fatally shot by a probation officer.

Richmond is the father of former Steubenville High School football player Ma’Lik Richmond, who was convicted in the 2012 rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl.

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Police arrested another man, who was in the car with the suspected shooter, the Steubenville Herald-Star reported.

Possible motive. Bruzzese was overseeing a wrongful death case that Richmond filed against a housing authority over a fire that killed Richmond's mother and a toddler, according to The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register.

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The attack. Steubenville City Manager James Mavromatis told CNN affiliate WTOV-TV the deceased suspect ambushed Bruzzese outside the courthouse, and Bruzzese and a probation officer returned fire.

“We’re starting to put this whole picture together, but basically what you have is the judge is going to work, these subjects were waiting for them. He comes up, shoots at the judge. The judge returns fire,” Mavromatis said. “We also have a probation officer that was behind the judge. He returns fire as he is shot at. The subject is deceased that he shot at.”

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

Video showing the attack. Surveillance video captured Richmond arriving at a neighboring bank a short while before the shooting, leaving, then returning and walking quickly toward the judge from a parked car and firing.

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