By Kanishka Singh

(Reuters) – Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s identify appeared on successful listing stored by a person who allegedly fatally shot a retired Wisconsin choose on Friday, the governor’s workplace stated on Saturday.

“Yesterday our workplace was notified by regulation enforcement officers that Governor Whitmer’s identify appeared on the Wisconsin gunman’s listing,” a spokesman for Whitmer advised Reuters.

“Whereas the information studies are deeply troubling, we is not going to remark additional on an ongoing prison investigation,” he added.

The Wisconsin Division of Justice stated the retired choose, John Roemer, 68, was discovered useless on Friday in his dwelling after the native sheriff’s workplace acquired a name about “an armed particular person and two pictures fired in a Township of New Lisbon residence.”

The division known as it a “focused” assault. It stated that Douglas Uhde, 56, was discovered within the basement of Roemer’s dwelling with an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound. A firearm was recovered on the scene.

The division stated Uhde stays in crucial situation at a medical facility.

“This … does look like a focused act and the person who’s a suspect seems to have had different targets as effectively. It seems to be associated to the judicial system,” Wisconsin Legal professional Common Josh Kaul stated at a Friday information convention.

In April, a federal jury acquitted two males of conspiring to kidnap Whitmer in 2020 and deadlocked on the identical fees for 2 different males.