A small US town has been rocked after a district court judge was shot and killed in his chambers. A sheriff and long-time colleague has been charged with his murder.
The case of a US sheriff accused of fatally shooting a judge in his courthouse chambers has made international headlines.The death of a judge in his courthouse chambers has made headlines across the US and overseas after a sheriff was charged with his murder.
Judge Mullins, who held the judgeship since 2009, died at the scene and Sheriff Stines was arrested soon after police arrived."We were kind of joking around about national politics … And then I talked to the sheriff about attending the sheriff's association last week in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and asked him how that went.He told the Associated Press it seemed like an ordinary interaction, except the sheriff seemed quieter than usual.
Jessica Slone, a distant relative of Sheriff Stines, said he was close with his children and worked hard to get fentanyl and methamphetamine off the streets."I don't know what happened."I just cannot believe that he just went in and shot him for no reason."
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