Residents of a tiny Kentucky town are struggling to cope with a shooting involving a judge killed in his chambers and the sheriff charged with murder.

A Kentucky district court judge was shot and killed Thursday afternoon after an argument with a local sheriff, law-enforcement officials said. Kevin Mullins, a 54-year-old district county judge, was shot multiple times inside the Letcher County Courthouse,

Residents of a tiny Appalachian town struggled Friday to cope with a shooting involving two of its most prominent citizens: a judge who was gunned down in his courthouse chambers and a local sheriff charged with his murder.