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 in his chambers on Thursday, and a sheriff has been charged with his murder.

WHITESBURG, Ky. — A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed at the local courthouse on Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged in the shocking slaying, police said.

A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed at the local courthouse on Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged in the shocking slaying, police said.

A Kentucky judge was fatally shot in his courthouse chambers on Thursday, according to authorities, who said a county sheriff has been arrested and charged with murder.

KSP’s preliminary investigation indicates that Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Mickey Stines, 43, shot Mullins following an argument inside the courthouse. They say Stines was taken into custody at the scene without incident. Stines has been charged with one count of first-degree murder.

A body was found off a Kentucky highway. Police believe it's Joseph Couch, who is suspected of shooting five people almost two weeks earlier.

Kentucky State Police say they believe a body found in the woods near I-75 is Joseph A. Couch, the man accused of seriously injuring five people in a shooting spree along the interstate.

Investigators hunting for the suspect in an interstate shooting said Wednesday that they had found a body near the location where the incident took place.