Overview

• Recently filed court records say Shawn “Mickey” Stines remained in an active state of psychosis for days after the Sept. 19, 2024 shooting and clashed with jail staff who used pepper spray.
• Grand jury testimony from a state police detective details video showing Stines asking others to leave Judge Kevin Mullins’ chambers, borrowing the judge’s phone, and then firing multiple rounds.
• Investigators told the grand jury they found no evidence of any contact between Mullins and Stines’ minor daughter, and said Stines called his daughter from the judge’s phone moments before the shooting.
• Stines has pleaded not guilty to murdering a public official, remains jailed without bond, and his lawyers filed the grand jury transcript and are seeking to unseal his state mental evaluation.
• Prosecutors moved this week for a change of venue due to local notoriety, the defense objected, and no trial date has been set.