Man released from custody after friend shot judge outside Ohio courthouse

For the first time, we hear from a man taken into custody after his friend shot a judge outside an Ohio courthouse.

“I told him I'd ride with him, he got out the car, next thing I know is gunfire,” Curtis Golsby said. He told The Daily Mail he was drinking with Nathaniel Richmond hours before the shooting outside the Jefferson County courthouse.

“After the gunshots, I saw two police officers, talking about get your hands out the car. So I stuck my hands out and next I know he ran to the car, he collapsed.”

Golsby was not charged.

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Prosecutors say they don't believe he knew what was about to happen.

Richmond was shot dead when the judge and a probation officer returned fire.

The judge's brother tells an Ohio newspaper he is improving at UPMC Presby.

As for a motive, investigators think Richmond mistakenly believed the judge dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit he filed against the local housing authority.

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