Reports of a Supreme Court justice’s security detail shooting a gunman near her home have sparked concern because of the liberal jurisprudence’s views on gun rights.

According to a criminal complaint reviewed by Newsweek, at about 1:17 A.M. ET on July 5, two U.S. marshals were placed on “protective detail” in Washington, D.C., when a silver minivan “pulled up right next to” the officers. A man got out of the minivan, approached the marshals – who were in an unmarked government vehicle – and pointed a gun directly at one of the officers through the driver’s window.

The deputy responded by drawing his firearm and shooting the suspect, identified as Kentrell Flowers, 18, four times, including in the mouth, according to the complaint. The same deputy then administered first aid to Flowers while the minivan fled.

Flowers was treated for his injuries and arrested, charged with attempted carjacking and assault, resisting or obstructing an officer using a dangerous weapon, authorities said.

A spokesman for the US Marshals Service told The Associated Press that the deputies were part of a detail assigned to protect Supreme Court justices and the incident occurred while the deputies were near Sotomayor’s home. There is no indication that justice was a goal.

Several conservatives highlighted Sotomayor’s perspective on the Second Amendment in light of the arrest. The justice, who was appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama, has been drawn in the past by gun rights activists over her interpretation of the right to bear arms.

Some accounts on X, formerly Twitter, pointed out that Sotomayor joined the dissent in the 2010 decision on McDonald v. Chicago, which ultimately found that the Second Amendment applied to state and local governments as well as those at the federal level. Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in the dissent: “Overall, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment to protect a private right of armed self-defense. There was and is no consensus that the right is: or was ‘fundamental.’

“In 2010, Justice Sotomayor joined in a dissenting opinion McDonald v. Chicago … Meanwhile, Sotomayor’s armed security team just wouldn’t be a would-be carjacker outside her house,” the conservative X Libs TikTok account posted. “However, ordinary citizens have no right to private armed self-defense in her view. Rules for you and not for me.”

School safety activist Ryan Petty—whose daughter was killed during the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida—also responded to reports of shootings near Sotomayor’s home, writing in X, “Defensive weapon use.” Petty has spoken out against gun control measures while pushing to keep students safer from gun violence.

Another user X, who was replying to of the New York Post Report, he wrote: “Guns for me, not for you.” – Sotomayor”.

“Thank God for the Second Amendment,” quipped a different poster X, also replying to this Position report.

Newsweek The Supreme Court’s Office of Public Information was reached by email for comment late Tuesday night.

While speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee before being confirmed to the seat in 2009, Sotomayor expressed her views on the Second Amendment, telling lawmakers that she understood “how important the right to bear arms is to many, many Americans,” according to the Reuters.

He added during the hearing that he would keep an “open mind” on gun rights issues as a judge, adding, “I would not prejudge any question that came my way if I were a Supreme Court justice.”