Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was fatally shot in a courthouse at Whitesburg, Kentucky, on Thursday afternoon, according to Kentucky State Police.

Letcher District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was shot at the county courthouse, the local coroner said. One person is in custody in connection with the shooting.

Authorities say a judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed at the local courthouse. A sheriff has been arrested and charged with murder.

A Kentucky district court judge was shot and killed Thursday afternoon after an argument with a local sheriff, law-enforcement officials said. Kevin Mullins, a 54-year-old district county judge, was shot multiple times inside the Letcher County Courthouse,