After announcing he was recusing himself from the case because of his relationships with the two men, the commonwealth's attorney for Letcher County is urging people to stop spreading rumors about what may have happened in the shooting death of a judge there.

Jennifer Moonsong WCLU News Director A small eastern Kentucky town has been turned upside down following a bizarre incident Thursday, when Letcher County Sheriff, Shawn Stines, shot District Judge Kevin Mullins in his chambers.

A district judge is dead and a county sheriff has been arrested in connection to a fatal shooting at the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg, Kentucky.