Federal investigators have linked the murder of a California men’s rights lawyer to the suspect in the ambush of a federal judge’s family in New Jersey, authorities said Wednesday.
Unspecified evidence allegedly connects Roy Den Hollander, another men’s rights lawyer who was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound the day after an attack that killed the judge’s son and wounded her husband, with the death of Marc Angelucci in San Bernardino County, California.
FBI officials in Newark, New Jersey on Wednesday did not describe the evidence or explain how it links to the two cases.
Angelucci was shot dead at his home on July 11.
The FBI says Den Hollander was the “main subject in the attack” Sunday at the home of Esther Salas, a United States district judge, in North Brunswick, New Jersey, where Daniel Anderl, 20, was killed, and his father, Mark Anderl. , 63, was injured.
Salas, 51, was in another part of the house and was unhurt. Den Hollander was found dead Monday in Sullivan County, New York.
In both attacks, the suspect appeared to pose as a delivery driver, according to a law enforcement official. The official was unable to publicly discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
Investigators found items in Den Hollander’s possession that raised concerns about whether he had targeted or planned to target other people. The articles included a photograph of Janet DiFiore, the New York chief judge, and the address of a state appeals court, a state court spokeswoman said.
Den Hollander, 72, described himself as an “anti-feminist” attorney who filed lawsuits against the constitutionality of “women’s night” promotions in bars and nightclubs, sued Columbia University for providing study classes for women and sued news organizations for what he said was biased coverage
In more than 2,000 pages of often misogynistic racist writing posted online, Den Hollander had harshly criticized Chambers and other judges.
Both Den Hollander and Angelucci, 52, were involved in lawsuits that sought to compel the United States government to require all young women to join men in registering for possible military recruitment.
Den Hollander’s lawsuit, filed in 2015 on behalf of a woman in New Jersey, was assigned to Salas. She retired as a lawyer in the case a year ago after being diagnosed with cancer.
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