HAGERSTOWN, Md.—Pedro Argote was conspicuously absent last Thursday when a Maryland judge granted his wife a divorce and sole custody of their four children, citing “shocking” testimony about the abuse that Mr. Argote allegedly inflicted upon them for years.
But later that day, authorities say, Mr. Argote showed up at Judge Andrew Wilkinson’s home and shot him to death in his driveway. Now a wanted man, Mr. Argote remains at large amid a law enforcement search spanning several states.
