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The relationship between Judge Mullins, 54, and Stines, 43, was widely known to be close, and the two even had lunch together hours before the attack on September 19, 2024.
Mullins then won the election the following year and had been re-elected since. [1] Before becoming a district judge, he had served as an assistant commonwealth's attorney in Letcher County, starting in 2001. Mullins was a native of Pikeville and a graduate of the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville School of Law. [2] [3]
Mullins is survived by his wife and two daughters, his obituary states. “He died in his chambers of the courthouse where he spent his career working to help people,” the obituary said.
Mullins served as a district judge for Kentucky’s 47th District Court in Letcher County since being appointed by former Gov. Steve Beshear in 2009, according to the Associated Press.
Hundreds of mourners, including a procession of black-robed judges, filed into the Jenkins High School auditorium to pay their respects to District Judge Kevin R. Mullins, 54.
Prior to his appointment, Mullins was a prosecutor for the Appellate Bureau, Division of Criminal Justice, in Rocky Hill, Connecticut and an assistant attorney general in the Child Protection Division in Hartford. [2] He was nominated by Governor Dannel Malloy in 2012 to serve as a judge of the Middlesex County Superior Court.
Letcher County's judge-executive signed an order closing on Friday the county courthouse where the shooting took place. Mullins, 54, was hit multiple times in the shooting, Kentucky State Police said. Stines, 43, was charged with one count of first-degree murder. The investigation is continuing, police said.
Letcher District Judge Kevin Mullins was shot to death in his courthouse office on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. The woman, Sabrina Adkins, had been in jail but was let out on home incarceration and ...