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The shooting happened at about 2:55 PM inside the #LetcherCounty Courthouse in #Whitesburg, a city in southeastern #Kentucky.

The #sheriff was taken to a local jail & had been cooperative w/investigators, Trooper Gayheart said.

“This community is small in nature, & we’re all shook,” the trooper said.

#Judge Mullins, 54, suffered multiple gunshot wounds & was pronounced dead at the scene, Trooper Gayheart said.

#law #murder

More madness

The #sheriff of a rural eastern #Kentucky county walked into a courthouse on Thurs afternoon & shot and killed a district #judge in his chambers after an argument, police said.

Mickey Stines, 43, the sheriff in #LetcherCounty, turned himself in after shooting Judge Kevin Mullins & was charged w/ first-degree #murder, Trooper Matt Gayheart of the Kentucky State Police said at a news conference on Thurs evening.

#law
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