A Southern California choose was arrested on Thursday in reference to the killing of his spouse, whom law enforcement officials discovered lifeless from a gunshot wound contained in the couple’s Anaheim residence, the authorities stated on Friday.

The choose, Jeffrey Ferguson, 72, of the Orange County Superior Court, was booked into the Anaheim Police Department’s detention facility on Thursday and held on $1 million bail, the police stated.

He posted bail on Friday and has been launched, based on Orange County Sheriff’s Department data.

The police responded round 8 p.m. on Thursday to studies of a capturing at a house in Anaheim, Calif., which is about 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

Inside the home, officers discovered that Judge Ferguson’s spouse, Sheryl Ferguson, 65, had been fatally shot, the Anaheim Police Department stated in a news release.

It is unclear what led as much as the capturing, and the police didn’t instantly reply to requires touch upon Saturday evening.

Photos taken exterior the house the place Ms. Ferguson was killed confirmed a beige home flanked by palm bushes and bordered by crime scene tape. Another photograph exhibits an official strolling close to the scene with two firearms in his fingers.

As of Saturday evening, Judge Ferguson had not been formally charged.

The Orange County District Attorney’s Office didn’t instantly reply to an electronic mail looking for touch upon Saturday evening. The Orange County Superior Court was closed on Saturday and couldn’t be reached for remark.

Judge Ferguson has been a staple in Orange County’s authorized group for years.

He obtained his legislation diploma in 1982 from Western State College of Law in Irvine, Calif. He served as a county deputy district lawyer beginning in 1983, 10 years after graduating from the University of California, Irvine, with a bachelor’s diploma in organic sciences and social ecology, according to his biography.

He was named prosecutor of the 12 months 4 occasions by the Orange County Narcotics Officers Association, based on his biography.

From 2012 to 2014, he was the president of the North Orange County Bar Association, and in 2014 he was elected as choose of the Superior Court of Orange County.

In 2017, Judge Ferguson was admonished by the California Commission on Judicial Performance as a result of he posted an announcement on Facebook a couple of candidate for judicial workplace with “knowing or reckless disregard for the truth of the statement,” based on fee documents.

He was additionally admonished by the fee that 12 months for “being Facebook friends with attorneys who were appearing regularly before him in court,” the paperwork state.

The choose, the paperwork state, by no means disclosed that he was Facebook associates with three felony protection legal professionals who have been typically showing earlier than him in courtroom, undermining the credibility of the courtroom, the fee stated.

He unfriended the legal professionals on Facebook after the fee contacted him in regards to the matter, based on the paperwork.