District Judge Kevin Mullins was shot and killed in his chambers after an argument, police say.

A Kentucky sheriff has been arrested after fatally shooting a judge in his chambers, police say.

District Judge Kevin Mullins died at the scene after being shot multiple times in the Letcher County Courthouse, Kentucky State Police said.

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Stines, 43, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder.

The shooting happened on Thursday after an argument inside the court, police said, but they have not yet revealed a motive.

    • @meco03211
      6•3 hours ago

      Another comment mentioned an accusation of diddling the sheriff’s daughter. Even if that’s demonstrably and unequivocally false, Republicans would latch onto that for their virtue signaling.

  • @KeraKali
    62•5 hours ago

    I was seriously hoping that the title was poorly worded and a sheriff did not, in fact, murder a judge inside a courthouse. But what the actual fuck.

    • @CaptainSpaceman
      6•3 hours ago

      Facebook says its cuz judge diddled sheriffs daughter

      Looking forward to facts tho

      • @Death_Equity
        -20•2 hours ago

        Well, I can’t blame him if she is underage. If that is the case, sheriff did his duty as a father and an officer of the law in order to uphold the law and do right by his kid, so long as the judge did violate the sheriff’s child.

        Woodchipper feet-first for the lot of them, judicial firearm use is too kind.

        • Nougat
          14•2 hours ago

          “Judge, jury, and executioner” isn’t a compliment.

        • @[email protected]
          3•1 hour ago

          I can respect the commitment to the bit that it must have taken to delete criticalthinking.ini entirely from your brain, but I can’t bring myself to respect even an iota of what it’s turned you into. You broke yourself, dude.