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Orange County judge arrested after his wife is shot to death in their home. ‘It’s a shock’

The quiet that normally fills East Canyon Vista Drive in Anaheim Hills, California, was punctured Thursday night by the thudding of helicopter blades and the barking of police orders. Through her open bedroom window, Angela Herrmann heard a man’s voice yell, “Don’t shoot me!” She was too scared to go outside, but other neighbors gathered in the dusk and were shocked to see longtime resident ...
Jeffrey Ferguson, a 72- year-old Orange County, California, judge, police say, shot and killed his wife inside their home.

The quiet that normally fills East Canyon Vista Drive in Anaheim Hills, California, was punctured Thursday night by the thudding of helicopter blades and the barking of police orders.

Through her open bedroom window, Angela Herrmann heard a man’s voice yell, “Don’t shoot me!”

She was too scared to go outside, but other neighbors gathered in the dusk and were shocked to see longtime resident Jeffrey Ferguson, an Orange County Superior Court judge, standing in front of his home, speaking loudly into a cellphone. Green laser dots focused on his body as a booming voice from above directed Ferguson to get on the ground.

“I heard the judge shout,

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