Montgomery County Judge Johnny Hardwick is in serious condition after he was shot Saturday. Authorities have taken his son into custody.

Hardwick, the presiding judge of Montgomery County’s Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, is in surgery following the shooting, according to Montgomery County Sheriff Derrick Cunningham.

Hardwick, a circuit judge since 2001, is the current president of the Alabama Association of Circuit Court Judges.

Cunningham confirmed that authorities arrested Hardwick’s 36-year-old son, Khalfani Hardwick, shortly after the shooting occurred on Troy Highway.

“I am just asking that we continue to pray for the judge,” Cunningham said.

No further information was immediately available.

Khalfani Hardwick, in 2017, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault for the attempted murder of Clayton Riley in 2014. According to media reports, Khalfani Hardwick admitted to shooting Riley in the head in Montgomery, and that the admission led to the downgrading of charges against him from attempted murder to second-degree assault.

Judge Hardwick, a Montgomery native, is a 1973 graduate of Alabama State University. According to a news release from the university in August, Hardwick helped spearhead the “Golden Class” (50-year) reunion of his college graduating class, which made a more than $250,000 donation to their alma mater, the largest single donation by a Golden Class in recent years.