AUSTIN, Texas -- Travis County commissioners have signed off on a $500,000 settlement with Judge Julie Kocurek over how the county handled a threat before her shooting.
In 2015, a gunman shot Kocurek outside her Austin home.
After the shooting, a previous threat against an unspecified judge came to light.
Court documents show two weeks before the judge was shot, a woman called the Travis County District Attorney's Office and said a man, Chimene Onyeri, wanted to kill a Travis County judge.
Onyeri was later arrested and charged in Kocurek's shooting.
Questions were raised about how the threat was investigated and why Kocurek wasn't warned.
The Austin-American Statesman reported that the award will settle any claims that could have come up in a lawsuit.
Travis County officials aren't releasing details.
"I don't want to go into detail. This was a very difficult event for our entire Travis County family. And there is on-going security concern," said Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt.
Kocurek was severely injured, but has recovered enough to return to the bench.
Onyeri and two other men are in jail and scheduled for trial later this year.
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