Defendant Told Others of Urge to Kill Judge and a Wait with a Gun, Plea Document Says
A Tennessee man armed with a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol waited outside the offices of an administrative law judge last February, but the judge never emerged, according to a federal document supporting a plea in the case.
The man Roy Kenneth Wade Jr., was angry because the judge, K. Dickson Grissom, had denied Wade’s application for Social Security benefits, the Knoxville News reports. Wade was hospitalized after telling mental health professionals about the incident, as well as his continued desire to kill the judge, according to the document filed in Knoxville federal court by Assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa Kirby.
After his release from the hospital, Wade told federal agents he didn’t know whether he will kill Grissom, but if he did, he would save a round to shoot himself.
Wade confessed this week to a charge of threatening to murder a federal judge and will be sentenced later this year, the story says.
