Kentucky judge killed in his chambers, sheriff under arrest

(NewsNation) — A section justice successful a tiny municipality successful eastbound Kentucky was changeable and killed successful his chambers Thursday, and the section sheriff is nether arrest.

District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was discovered with aggregate gunshot wounds, according to the Kentucky State Police. Nobody other was injured.

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. “Mickey” Stines, 43, was arrested astatine the scene. He's been charged with first-degree murder. Authorities person not commented connected a imaginable motive. The courthouse is successful Whitesburg, which is 146 miles (235 kilometers) southeast of Lexington.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, whose father, Gov. Steve Beshear, appointed Mullins to the seat successful 2009, issued a connection connected the shooting implicit societal media.

Beshear posted that determination is “far excessively overmuch unit successful this world, and I commune determination is simply a way to a amended tomorrow.”

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