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A New Mexico municipal judge and her pets were killed in an apparent murder-suicide carried out by the judge's husband just hours after a friend of the couple's received 'a troubling message.'
Diane Albert, a New Mexico judge, and her pets were shot and killed by her husband on Friday before he turned the gun on himself, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said.
Authorities said a friend of the couple contacted the sheriff's office "after receiving a troubling message" from the husband.
The judge's husband allegedly shot her and the family pets before turning the gun on himself.
A panel of lawmakers that weighs New Mexico’s court system between legislative sessions chose not to endorse a proposal to weaken the state’s sunshine law in order to protect judges from violence. But the lawmaker who objected to the bill suggested that work could still be done to convince transparency advocates that it would be a good change.