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[Music] we are never going to be the same driving at night is never going to be the
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same and we all feel that it never should have happened I was the first female district
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judge to be on a criminal bench in Travis County governor Bush appointed me in 1999 I think the fact that I was
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expecting twins brought a lot of attention to the whole process attorneys please approach I treated people in my
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courtroom with respect and kindness and patience but firm when I needed to be the defendant stands charged with the
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offense of capital murder I knew that there was the Potential Threat because of the high-risk people that I'm seeing
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every day the decisions I make every day someone's not going going to leave happy it was a Friday I had family and
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we're going to go to the football game you know Texas football on Friday night will and I and my sister drove it
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was just like any other night we always went to the football games every Friday night my cousin and Aunt were coming in
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town so I was excited to see them and have a good night it was rainy so after halftime we
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decided to head home will had his learner permit so he drove my mom was next to me in the
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passenger seat my aunt and cousin were in the back so we drove up to the security gate
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and we drove into our driveway and as we're pulling into the driveway I saw a leaf bag that was
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blocking the gate and we thought it was strange I thought it was a prank and so we will got out of the
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car got out and picked it up and then started to walk down towards the street with
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it and I saw someone start to kind of walk down the street uh and I noticed he was dressed in all black and I thought
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it was a little weird and then all of a sudden he just started running straight at me and so I turned around and ran
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back to my mom's side of the car and then he uh pulled out gun and started [Music]
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shooting I think he shot four times through the driver side window I scooted down as far as I could
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in the seat and I protected my head with my arm and my hand I can remember thinking I'm going to die in front of my
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own son Travis County 911 hello helloo we just got shot at is anybody in injured my mom is please hurry um this
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guy just ran up to the car shut up my mom I got called by one of the supervisors in the homide unit uh who
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told me there had been a shooting um and that the victim of the shooting was state district court judge Julie
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Cur when you're a judge you potentially have a lot of enemies she'd sent a lot of people to prison there potentially
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hundreds if thousands of of individuals who who might hold a grudge against her we didn't know who did this and it just
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shows you that you'd never know who it's going to be [Music]