People in the courtroom wept as the footage was shown during a preliminary hearing for former Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines, who is charged with first-degree murder.
Former Letcher County Ky. Sheriff Shawn"Mickey" Stines looks over at the prosecutors during his arraignment at the Morgan County Courthouse in West Liberty, Ky., on Tuesday. Stines is accused of murdering District Judge Kevin Mullins.A Kentucky sheriff shot and killed a local judge last month after seeing his teenage daughter’s number on the judge’s phone, according to court testimony Tuesday.
Stines and Mullins were longtime co-workers and friends. Police did not explain during the preliminary hearing the significance of the daughter’s number on the judge’s phone. In 1988, a judge in Grand Rapids, Mich., was killed by her estranged husband, a veteran police officer. The same year, a retired New York City police officer shot and killed a judge in Westchester County, after the judge dismissed a suit filed by the officer’s daughter.
Stines, 43, and Mullins, 54, were well known throughout the community. Police said they had shared lunch together with others at a restaurant near the courthouse hours before the shooting.Det. Clayton Stamper, the chief investigator, said the full video showed Stines trying to call his daughter from his phone and then from the judge’s phone. After that, the sheriff opened fire.
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