breaking news - federal judge shot and killed in front of home by FedEx gunman

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according to reports.

An unknown assailant disguised as a Federal Express delivery driver gunned down Judge Esther Salas’s 20-year-old son, Daniel Anderl, and shot her 63-year-old husband, Mark Anderl, at the North Brunswick estate around 5 p.m., authorities told the New Jersey Globe.

Salas — who is believed to have been in the basement of the home at the time of the attack — was not injured.



Sources told ABC News that the judge’s son, a student at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., answered the door and was immediately struck.


“He was shot through the heart,” North Brunswick Mayor Francis “Mac” Womack told the outlet.

A friend told NJ.com that the young man was planning to go to law school.

“He had his whole future ahead,” the friend, Joe Mauro, said.

Mark Anderl — a well-regarded criminal defense attorney — was in critical but stable condition Sunday night after undergoing surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick, the Globe reported.

Salas — who sentenced “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice to more than a year in prison for fraud in 2014 — has served as a U.S. District Court judge in Newark for nine years. She has also been responsible for several other high-profile cases, including ones involving the leaders of street gangs.