HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A Texas state judge who was shot and wounded outside her Austin home last month is now out of the hospital, a family spokesman tells Eyewitness News.
District Judge Julie Kocurek was shot November 6 in the driveway of her home. She was stable when she was taken to the hospital but has spent the last several weeks recovering.
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Houston resident Chimene Onyeri, 28, is the main person of interest in the Koceruk's assassination attempt. He is also charged in connection with a murder in southwest Houston that occurred last May.
Kocurek, a former prosecutor, was appointed to the court by then-Gov. George W. Bush in 1999. She went on to become the only Republican elected to a state district judgeship in Travis County, the heavily-Democratic county that is home to the State Capitol. In 2006, she switched to the Democratic Party. She was the presiding felony judge for the county, the Austin American-Statesman said.
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District Judge Julie Kocurek