Shawn “Mickey” Stines officially resigned as sheriff of Letcher County on Monday, the next day he was in court for a preliminary hearing.

A detective testified the fatal shooting of Kentucky Judge Kevin Mullins by Sheriff Mickey Stines followed calls to the sheriff's daughter.

"I wasn't present," Clayton Stamper, lead investigator, said. "But when he was taken into custody, I was told by one of the other officers that were there that he made the comment, 'They're trying to kidnap my wife and kid.

Video showing a Kentucky judge being gunned down in his chambers was played Tuesday during a court hearing for the ex-sheriff who is charged in the killing that

The last time he was in a courthouse, he fatally shot a judge, investigators say. On Tuesday, a former Kentucky sheriff will be in a different courthouse to hear the evidence against him. Former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines,

The case against a former rural Kentucky sheriff accused of fatally shooting a judge in his chambers has been sent to a grand jury.

Shawn "Mickey" Stines, a former Kentucky sheriff accused of fatally shooting a judge, is expected to appear in court.

Video shown at the preliminary hearing for a former Kentucky sheriff, accused of killing a district judge, allegedly showed the deadly shooting.

A preliminary hearing in the case against a former sheriff yielded details about his interactions with the slain judge before he was killed.