A lawyer whose body was found in New York Monday morning is being investigated as the possible shooter who killed the son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas and severely wounded her husband in New Jersey Sunday night, according to multiple media reports,

The lawyer, who had a case before Salas in 2015, apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, ABC News said. NBC New York, citing unnamed sources, said the man was an attorney who filed various sorts of civil lawsuits over the years.

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