Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43, was taken into custody at the scene without incident, police said. He was charged with one count of first-degree murder.

A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder, police said.

Kentucky District Judge Kevin Mullins was shot and killed by a sheriff on Thursday afternoon while in his chambers. Gov. Andy Beshear rebuked the violence in a public statement.