Brian Lovell, an associate district judge in Garfield County, Oklahoma, was arrested Sept. 11 on a misdemeanor count of reckless driving.
A felony count of engaging in deadly conduct with a firearm was forwarded to a grand jury for consideration.“We have zero comment,” said a woman who answered a phone call Friday to a number listed as Lovell’s. The woman identified herself as Lovell’s wife but declined to give her name.Lovell didn’t immediately reply to a phone message left at another number listed as his, and he declined to comment to aAccording to an Austin police affidavit, officers were called just after 4 p.m. on Sept.
About 90 minutes later, police responded to a call about a crash less than 2 miles from the shooting scene, where a woman said a man had deliberately collided into the rear of her vehicle twice.He told police he believed the woman had cut him off in traffic and although he acknowledged their vehicles had collided, he “did not admit the collisions were intentional,” according to the document.
Lovell told police there were two handguns in his vehicle, but he said “he did not know why he would have shot his gun and could not recall any part of the shooting incident,” according to the affidavit. Paul Woodward, the presiding administrative judge for the Garfield County district, said Lovell agreed to not preside over any cases until his own case is resolved.
“He’s been a good friend and colleague for years. It’s hard for me to believe any of this,” Woodward said.
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