Three persons are being held by Texas authorities on charges of attempting to assassinate a judge and a mother. The arrests, according to the prosecution, were facilitated by a tracking device on a car and were the result of a violent child custody lawsuit.
Mike Gleason, the sheriff for Williamson County, declared, “You can’t make that stuff up.”
Gleason stated that the case has been resolved about 200 days after a youngster in Liberty Hill, Texas, dialed 911 to report that someone had shot his mother and her boyfriend.
The boyfriend was shot twice and the mother was shot eleven times in March.
“It was clear that this was not a random attack,” Gleason stated.
That was also the opinion of the neighbors at the time.
“Our main concern was the safety of the people involved,” one neighbor stated.
The lady informed police that she was in a custody battle with her 38-year-old ex-husband Clinton Harmon and that he was the only one who could have done it.
Detectives received a call from Harmon’s ex-girlfriend in Louisiana in July of last year, stating that the shooting was prearranged.
“She recalled a family meeting in Bastrop county in July of 2023 where Harmon, his mother, Teresa and his adopted father Matt, discuss ways to murder the victim as well as the judge presiding over the custody case,” Gleason stated.
At that point, law enforcement started providing the victims and the judge with round-the-clock protection. However, Liberty Hill Police stated at the time of the shooting that it seemed to be a singular incident.
Subsequently, the detectives found that Harmon’s SUV had a tracker installed when it was purchased by the lender, who had a lien on it.
“A subpoena for the vehicle location on the day of attempted murder confirmed that the vehicle was just 0.4 miles away from the crime scene,” Gleason stated.
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Harmon was detained on September 8 at the airport in New Orleans on suspicion of attempting capital murder. U.S. Marshals detained Matt and Teresa Harmon on September 16. They always knew that the attack was personal, according to Gleason.
“When you shoot somebody that many times, it tells that that’s up close and personal, that’s vindictiveness,” he stated.
The date of Harmon’s extradition to Williamson County is unknown, although he has a $2 million bond. Because they threatened a judge and engaged in offensive retaliation, Matt and Teresa Harmon each have a $1 million bond.
