not random. here is what the officials in wisconsin said. this, as i mentioned before, does appear to be a targeted act. and the individual who is a suspect appears to have had other targets as well. it appears to be related to the judicial system. reporter: fredericka, officials stressed the risk did not go beyond judge roemer, there is no one else at this moment who is in danger. however this all fits into the larger threat pattern we ve been talking about, for months federal officials have been warning that we remain in a heightened threat environment, some of that threat coming from people with antigovernment sentiments and grievances and the real concern for law enforcement and what they ve been warning about is the very real possibility that these people who are inclined to violence are ramping up and they will seek out highly visible and also soft targets like former circuit court judge john roemer. and this is really concerning for law enforcement here in
we re learning the identity of the gunman who officials say killed a former wisconsin judge and had several high profile politicians on a list of targets. the suspect now in the hospital in critical condition. cnn s whitney wild is here with me now. whitney, you just got some new information from the wisconsin justice department, very disturbing case. what have you learned? we have just learned minutes ago, again, the name of that suspect, douglas kay ute, who was found inside that same home where judge john roemer was killed. what we know from sources is that there was basically a hit list, and it included high profile government officials like michigan governor gretchen whi whitmer, wisconsin governor tony evers, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. officials say that this appears to be in some way related to the judicial system, but they re working to figure out how that all fits together. what they know now is that this all started at 6:30 friday morning when a man ran out of