Florida Federal Judge Kills Himself After Standoff With Police

August 24. 2018

Timothy Maher in criminal court on August 15, 2018, after his arrest for threatening the mother of his young child

51-year-old U.S. federal judge, Timothy Maher, shot and killed himself after a 10-hour standoff with police. Maher held family members at gunpoint, including an underage girl, before turning the gun on himself. Police stormed the building and found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Maher was in criminal court recently over a dispute he has with the mother of his 4-year-old son and it was televised on local news channels. Maher, who appeared humiliated and defeated in court, had been arrested and was charged with "aggravated assault with a firearm, child abuse with no great bodily harm and resisting arrest without violence."

Maher was also hit with a restraining order, barring him from contacting the mother of his child, due to the fact he threatened her and in the presence of the child, while carrying a gun on his hip. Due to the arrest, he was facing loss of custody and impeachment from the bench, where he worked as a disability court judge in downtown Miami.

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Federal judge shoots and kills himself after holding a 13-year-old girl and her parents hostage in their home in 10-hour SWAT team standoff

Published: 16:43 EDT, 24 August 2018 | Updated: 17:21 EDT, 24 August 2018 - A federal judge has shot and killed himself after holding terrified family members at gunpoint in a 10-hour standoff with police SWAT teams. Timothy Maher, 51, ended the standoff with a self-inflicted gunshot wound around 8.20am on Friday morning in a home outside of Miami, allowing the 13-year-old girl and her parents to escape uninjured.

Maher, a federal administrative judge with 10 years on the bench, had spiraled out of control in recent days, drawing an arrest and multiple police contacts over a dispute with the estranged mother of his four-year-old son. Police said Maher was related to the hostages, but it is unclear how. Neighbors said that the homeowner may have been the judge's brother-in-law...

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