After announcing he was recusing himself from the case because of this 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.

The death of Kevin Mullins Thursday shocked close-knit Whitesburg, Kentucky. The sheriff charged with murder is accused of ignoring sexual abuse inside the courthouse.

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.