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A U.S. Marshal shot a suspected carjacker while protecting Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s home, according to officials and property records.
The Marshal, Tyler Wells, was working with another Marshal early on July 5 when a man in a van stopped outside their unmarked government vehicle and pointed a firearm at Wells, according to a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia’s district court. Wells shot at the man four times through the window. The man, who was struck in the mouth and fled the scene, was arrested at a hospital.
The U.S. Marshals Service confirmed the deputy U.S. Marshals who were involved in a shooting incident were responsible for protecting the residences of Supreme Court justices. The Marshals Service didn’t name the justice whom the deputies were protecting on July 5.
The Metropolitan Police Department reported the attempted carjacking in the 2100 block of 11th Street, Northwest. Sotomayor bought a condo there in 2012, according to Washington, D.C., property records. Sotomayor wasn’t home at the time of the incident, according to a person familiar with the matter. The 70-year-old was nominated by former President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court in 2009.
The Metropolitan Police named the suspect as 18-year-old Kentrell Flowers. He was charged with armed carjacking, carrying a pistol without a license and possession of a large-capacity ammunition feeding device.
Representatives for the Supreme Court didn’t immediately return a request for comment Tuesday.
Supreme Court justices have raised concerns about their safety in recent years. An armed man was arrested outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home in June 2022 and charged with attempted murder. His case is continuing. President Biden signed a bill into law later that month that expanded security protection to the immediate family members of Supreme Court justices.
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Regarding the carjacking, I don’t understand how one person alone, who is in a car, can hold up another person or two, and take their car also. How does that work? If a carjacker is not on foot, but in a car, doesn’t he need an accomplice? Thanks
Sonia Sotamayor according to realrawnews has not been on that property since, Jan 22, never to return. Curious her property would be guarded. Carjacking claim surely has SOME basis to be filed, what that may be is surely not clear in this report.