A former judge has been shot dead at his home by a man with a hit list of figures "related to the judicial system", it has emerged.
John Roemer, 68, was a Juneau County judge from 2004 until 2017 and had previously worked as an assistant district attorney and an assistant state public defender.
Police were called to the house in the rural city of New Lisbon, in the US state of Wisconsin, at around 6.30am on Friday morning (June 3) following reports of two gunshots.