1 Killed in Texas Courthouse Shooting
 

By the CNN Wire Staff
Updated 2:03 PM EDT, Wed March 14, 2012

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A judge said the shooting occurred outside the courthouse. Police shot a suspect, and the courthouse was evacuated.

At least one person was killed and at least two others were injured in a shooting Wednesday at a Texas courthouse, a judge said.

The shooting occurred outside a courthouse in Jefferson County, Texas, Judge Larry Gist said.

Witnesses saw an elderly woman dead on the sidewalk in front of the courthouse, said Kevin Steele, a reporter for CNN affiliate KBMT-TV. "There was a defendant on trial. It was break time, lunchtime, and he apparently shot three people, maybe four," Gist told CNN.

A witness in the case against the suspect was one of those shot, said Gist, who had left the courthouse for lunch and heard shots fired from a block away.

Police shot the suspect, and the courthouse was evacuated after the shooting, Gist said. The suspect was in police custody Wednesday afternoon, Steele told CNN.