Overview

• Shawn 'Mickey' Stines, former Letcher County Sheriff, is accused of shooting District Judge Kevin Mullins multiple times in his chambers.
• Stines' lawyer argues the shooting was a 'crime of passion' and seeks to reduce charges from murder to manslaughter.
• Surveillance footage shows Stines and Mullins having a heated exchange before the shooting, with Stines allegedly firing eight shots.
• The motive remains unclear, but the incident has shocked the small community where both men were longtime friends and colleagues.
• Stines, who has pleaded not guilty, resigned from his position and is currently held at the Leslie County Jail as the case proceeds to a grand jury.