Governor Andy Beshear said after the shooting: “There is far too much violence in this world, and I pray there is a path to a better tomorrow.”
A judge in a rural Kentucky county has been shot and killed in his courthouse chambers, and the local sheriff was charged with murder, police said.
Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice Laurance VanMeter said he was “shocked by this act of violence” and that the court system was “shaken by this news”.Mullins, 54, was hit multiple times in the shooting, Kentucky State Police said.The investigation is continuing, police said. Kentucky Attorney-General Russell Coleman said his office would collaborate with a commonwealth’s attorney in the region as special prosecutors in the criminal case.Loading
Mullins served as a district judge in Letcher County since he was appointed by former governor Steve Beshear in 2009 and elected the following year.
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