NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- The FBI on Monday identified Roy Den Hollander as the man who allegedly fatally shot a federal judge's son and wounded her husband at the judge's home in New Jersey.
Esther Salas' 20-year-old son died after he was shot inside their North Brunswick home on Sunday; her husband, who was also shot, was listed in stable condition on Monday.
(Esther Salas, left; her son Daniel Anderl, middle; and her husband Mark Anderl, right)
Hollander was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a car in Liberty, New York on Monday morning, authorities said. Here's what news outlets have reported about Hollander, who described himself on Twitter as a "men's rights attorney."
- Hollander "brought a lawsuit before Judge Salas (in 2015) that challenged the male-only military draft," the New York Times reported. The suit claimed the agency that keeps a list of draft-eligible Americans "violat(ed) women's sequel protection rights by requiring only men to register with the service," the outlet reported. Salas gave the suit the go-ahead, and it is ongoing, according to the outlet.
- Hollander wrote about Salas online, claiming she "traded on her Hispanic heritage to get ahead," the Associated Press reported. He also "criticized Salas' life story of being abandoned by her father and raised by her poor mother as 'the usual effort to blame a man and turn someone into super girl,'" according to the outlet. In a memoir he self-published, meanwhile, he called her "a lazy and incompetent Latina judge appointed by Obama," NBC News reported.
- Hollander in his memoir also "wrote about his hatred of his mother and other women and raged about women judges, including fantasizing about the violent rape of another judge who presided over his divorce case," according to NBC News.
- Hollander has filed several lawsuits against Manhattan nightlife venues "for organizing 'ladies' nights' drink specials," the Daily News reported. He also filed two ultimately unsuccessful lawsuits aimed at stopping Columbia University's feminist studies program from receiving federal funding, according to the outlet. "... I've come to the conclusion that whenever I go into court and I'm fighting a feminist ideology or political correctness, I'm going to lose," he told the outlet in 2013. "Either I'm a stupid lawyer, or I'm stupid for thinking the court will enforce the rights of guys."
- Hollander called himself an "anti-feminist," the Daily Beast reported. "Now is the time for all good men to fight for their rights before they have no rights left," he wrote on his website, according to the outlet. A law enforcement source told the Daily Beast papers that mentioned Marc Angelucci — a men's rights attorney who was shot dead at his home in California earlier this month — "were found in or around Den Hollander's car." The outlet also reported that Hollander had recently been diagnosed with cancer.
