{"id":109490,"date":"2024-10-02T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T04:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109490"},"modified":"2024-10-02T11:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T04:07:51","slug":"video-shows-the-moment-kentucky-judge-kevin-mullins-was-shot-to-death-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109490","title":{"rendered":"Video shows the moment Kentucky judge Kevin Mullins was shot to death : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"resg-s1-25794\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 5478;&#10;        --source-height: 3653;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5478x3653+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc9%2Fe6%2Fb9ccd0d44658bf8dcdb3ef5426ac%2Fstines.jpg\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5478x3653+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc9%2Fe6%2Fb9ccd0d44658bf8dcdb3ef5426ac%2Fstines.jpg\" data-format=\"webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5478x3653+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc9%2Fe6%2Fb9ccd0d44658bf8dcdb3ef5426ac%2Fstines.jpg\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5478x3653+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc9%2Fe6%2Fb9ccd0d44658bf8dcdb3ef5426ac%2Fstines.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5478x3653+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc9%2Fe6%2Fb9ccd0d44658bf8dcdb3ef5426ac%2Fstines.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Former Letcher County Ky. Sheriff Shawn \" mickey=\"\" stines=\"\" looks=\"\" over=\"\" at=\"\" the=\"\" prosecutors=\"\" during=\"\" his=\"\" arraignment=\"\" morgan=\"\" county=\"\" courthouse=\"\" in=\"\" west=\"\" liberty=\"\" ky.=\"\" on=\"\" tuesday.=\"\" is=\"\" accused=\"\" of=\"\" murdering=\"\" district=\"\" judge=\"\" kevin=\"\" mullins.=\"\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5478x3653+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc9%2Fe6%2Fb9ccd0d44658bf8dcdb3ef5426ac%2Fstines.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                Former Letcher County Ky. Sheriff Shawn &#8220;Mickey&#8221; 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.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Timothy D. Easley\/AP<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Timothy D. Easley\/AP<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Kentucky sheriff shot and killed a local judge last month after seeing his teenage daughter\u2019s number on the judge\u2019s phone, according to court testimony Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines dialed his daughter\u2019s number from District Judge Kevin Mullins\u2019 phone, then pulled his gun and shot Mullins repeatedly inside his own chambers in the city of Whitesburg on Sept. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Stines and Mullins were longtime co-workers and friends. Police did not explain during the preliminary hearing the significance of the daughter\u2019s number on the judge\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n<p>Graphic video played at the hearing appears to show Stines, a hulking man who stands 6\u20194\u201d and weighs more than 300 pounds, firing on Mullins as he sits at his desk with his left hand up. After Mullins collapses to the floor, Stines is seen leaning over the desk to fire again. As Stines prepares to leave, the video shows him closing in from another angle, firing his final shots from about two feet away.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap backstage\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Inside the courtroom, members of the audience wailed and wept as they watched the brief clip. There was no audio. Stines, wearing handcuffs and a blue tunic, stared down at the defense table while his daughter, who sat behind him, looked at one of the walls.<\/p>\n<p>Stines resigned as sheriff and has pleaded not guilty to murder.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s testimony and video are the latest turn in an extraordinary case in which a law officer has allegedly killed a judge. Killings of this sort are extremely rare.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>The killing in Kentucky has gripped and baffled the people of Letcher, a county of about 20,000 in the state\u2019s southeastern coalfields, about 150 miles from Lexington.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky State Police are investigating the case but have not disclosed a possible motive.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>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\u2019s phone. After that, the sheriff opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>Stamper also testified that as he was taken into custody, Stines told officers, \u201cThey are trying to kidnap my wife and kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stamper didn\u2019t elaborate on just what the sheriff might have meant. He did say, though, that he had heard the judge and sheriff were<strong> <\/strong>at odds over a recent lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Several days before Stines allegedly killed the judge, he was interviewed for hours in a deposition in a suit that names Stines in his capacity as sheriff. The lawsuit claimed that Stines knew or should\u2019ve known that a former deputy had coerced a female drug defendant into having sex in exchange for freeing her from house arrest. The defendant said Deputy Ben Fields had forced her to have sex with him in Judge Mullins\u2019 chambers after hours in exchange for Fields taking off her ankle monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Fields, who also served as the judge\u2019s bailiff, pleaded guilty to rape charges last year. Both Mullins and Stines denied knowing anything about Fields&#8217; crimes.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the shooting, some in Letcher County have focused on the sheriff\u2019s state of mind.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff and her two attorneys said Stines seemed agitated during the deposition, often turning to his attorney for guidance and asking for frequent breaks. The day after the deposition, Stines \u2014 who usually returned press calls promptly \u2014 took many hours to get back to a reporter about a fatal accident, according to <em>The Mountain Eagle<\/em>, Letcher\u2019s weekly newspaper. Stines told the newspaper that he\u2019d \u201ctold everyone at the sheriff\u2019s office not to say anything to anyone until he returned.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-third-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap third\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Stines also told the newspaper that he had lost 40 pounds in the past two weeks and did not know why.<\/p>\n<p>The first-degree murder case against Stines now heads to a grand jury.<\/p>\n<p><em>NPR member station WEKU contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/10\/01\/g-s1-25793\/video-shows-the-moment-a-kentucky-judge-was-shot-to-death\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Letcher County Ky. 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