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A outstanding Alabama decide was critically injured on Saturday when a home incident devolved right into a capturing at his residence, and the decide’s grownup son was taken into custody, authorities mentioned.
Montgomery County Circuit Choose Johnny Hardwick, who serves because the presiding decide over Alabama’s Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, “was concerned in a home incident together with his son and suffered severe accidents from a gunshot wound,” Montgomery Assistant Police Chief Wesley Richerson advised The New York Publish.
Deputies responded at roughly 1 p.m. to the residence, and the decide’s son, Khalfani Ahmed Hardwick, 36, was taken into custody throughout the hour, WSFA reported.
“I’m simply asking that we proceed to wish for the decide,” Montgomery County Sheriff Derrick Cunningham mentioned, in line with Simply The Information.
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Choose Johnny Hardwick talks concerning the renovations on the Montgomery County Courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama, on Nov. 10, 2020. (IMAGN/The Montgomery Advertiser)
As of Sunday, the youthful Hardwick remained held on expenses of first diploma home violence within the type of assault, and felony “pistol sure individual forbidden,” in line with Montgomery County on-line jail data.
The decide’s son was beforehand charged with tried homicide in 2017, the Montgomery Advertiser reported. After initially skipping out on trial in 2016, the youthful Hardwick agreed to plead responsible to capturing one other man, Clayton Riley, behind the pinnacle in 2014. His cost was then downgraded to second diploma assault, WFSA reported.
Khalfani Ahmed Hardwick, 36, was taken into custody after allegedly capturing his father, a outstanding decide, throughout a home incident. (Montgomery County Sheriff’s Workplace)
An alumnus of Alabama State College, the elder Hardwick has served as a circuit decide since 2001 and likewise serves as president of the Alabama Affiliation of Circuit Court docket Judges, in line with the Advertiser.
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Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed reacted to information of Hardwick’s capturing in a press release Saturday.
Choose Johnny Hardwick speaks throughout a swearing-in ceremony for Police Chief Darryl Albert on the Montgomery Municipal Justice Heart on March 28, 2022. (IMAGN/The Montgomery Advertiser)
“Tamika and I are saddened by the information that Choose Johnny Hardwick has been shot. He has honorably served our neighborhood on the Circuit Court docket for many years, serving to spearhead quite a few reforms to make the court docket system extra equitable and truthful,” Reed mentioned, in line with the Advertiser. “Most lately, he labored to get rid of bond necessities for extra nonviolent offenses. Away from the bench, he was a champion for the world’s youth, one of many founders of 100 Black Males of Better Montgomery. We’re praying for his restoration.”
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“Our ideas and prayers are with Choose Johnny Hardwick throughout this tough time,” Montgomery County Fee Chairman Doug Singleton mentioned in a press release of his personal. “All the Montgomery County Fee needs him a full restoration. We’d additionally wish to thank the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Workplace on their fast response.”
