(NewsNation) — Sheriff Shawn M. Stines allegedly shot and killed District Judge Kevin Mullins successful Letcher County, Kentucky, connected Thursday.

As the agrarian assemblage processes the incident, much details are emerging astir Stines' ongoing ineligible battles and his disposition successful the days starring up to the shooting.

Stines faces a civilian lawsuit, filed by lawyer Ned Pillersdorf, alleging helium ignored 1 of his subordinate's intersexual maltreatment toward women connected location arrest.

The suit accuses Stines of "deliberate indifference successful failing to adequately bid and supervise" the deputy, Ben Fields, CBS reports.

"In instrumentality for not reporting them for violating the presumption of their probation, they would springiness intersexual favors. Fields did that to astir 3 women," Pillersdorf said.

Some of the abuses happened successful Mullins' chambers, according to the attorney's client.

"The tie-in to Judge Mullins is, according to the plaintiff ... the intersexual encounters occurred successful the judge's chambers," helium said, aboriginal clarifying that astatine slightest 1 intersexual brushwood happened successful the chambers itself and different successful its bathroom.

Earlier this year, Fields near the department, pleaded blameworthy to rape among different counts and was sentenced to six months successful jailhouse followed by 6 1/2 years connected probation. The justice successful that lawsuit was not Mullins but alternatively a justice from adjacent Pike County.

When asked if the civilian suit has thing to bash with Thursday's incidental — oregon whether Judge Mullins knew astir the maltreatment successful his chambers — Pillsersdorf said determination is nary mode to cognize close now.

"Pure speculation. I don't cognize ... whether the suit we filed had thing to bash with the bizarre brushwood and shocking killing, nary telling," helium told NewsNation. "There's surely been a batch of societal media chatter, but nary telling."

Pillersdorf confirmed that during Stines' eight-hour deposition Monday, conscionable days earlier the shooting, the sheriff appeared to beryllium angry, agitated and defensive.

How was Kevin Mullins killed?

This undated photograph provided by Kentucky Court of Justice shows slain District Judge Kevin Mullins. (Kentucky Court of Justice via AP)

Stines allegedly walked into the judge’s outer office, past told tribunal employees and others gathered determination that helium needed to talk with Mullins alone, according to The Mountain Eagle. Shortly aft the 2 walked into the judge’s chambers, shots were heard. Then, Stines walked retired with his hands up and surrendered to police.

State constabulary accidental measures were made to effort to prevention Mullins’ life, but nary were successful. No different injuries were reported, according to NewsNation section affiliate WJHL.

NewsNation's Rich Johnson contributed to this report.