Authorities believe a men’s rights lawyer shot and killed a lawyer in California in the days before he attacked the family of a federal judge in New Jersey and died by suicide.
LOS ANGELES – Authorities believe a men’s rights lawyer shot and killed a lawyer in California in the days before he attacked the family of a federal judge in New Jersey and died of suicide, the authorities.
Roy Den Hollander, 72, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on July 20, the day after the shooting that killed federal district judge Esther Salas’ 20-year-old son and wounded her husband. Salas was in another part of the house and unharmed.
Investigators said Wednesday they had evidence linking the shooting in New Jersey to the death of attorney Marc Angelucci in San Bernardino County, California, on July 11. Den Hollander and Angelucci, 52, were involved in separate federal lawsuits that sought to compel the United States government to require that all young women 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.
When he died, Den Hollander had articles related to both Salas and New York State Chief Judge Janet M. DiFiore. He also had a typed document containing information about a dozen other women, some of them judges, two sources with first-hand knowledge of the material told The Associated Press. Three judges known to be on the list declined to comment or did not respond to AP messages seeking comment.
In California, Den Hollander arrived at a train station in San Bernardino on July 7 and rented a car, the county sheriff’s office said Friday in a press release. Authorities released a photo of a man, wearing a mask, at the train station carrying items away from a food stall.
Authorities said Den Hollander drove the rental car to Angelucci’s home, where he shot and killed him. Den Hollander walked away and boarded a train from California from Union Station in Los Angeles. A photo at the station shows a man, once again masked, spinning a suitcase.
It was not immediately clear whether Den Hollander took a train across the country, and whether the same weapon was used in the shooting and suicide.
In both the California and New Jersey attacks, the suspect appeared to pose as a delivery driver, a law enforcement official previously told AP. The official was unable to publicly discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
Den Hollander described himself as an “anti-feminist” attorney who filed lawsuits against the constitutionality of “ladies 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. He also wrote about wanting to use the rest of his time on earth to “match the score” with his perceived enemies, using “cowboy justice”.
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Dale reported from Philly.
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