Shocking 911 audio moments after judge was shot by sheriff best friend

A newly released 911 call has revealed the horrifying aftermath that followed a Kentucky judge being shot dead in his courthouse. 

Shawn 'Mickey' Stines, 43, is accused of gunning down Kentucky District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, in his chambers on September 19.

The 911 call that prompted emergency services to rush to the seen has now been obtained by Law and Crime. 

In it, the caller can be heard saying: 'I've got an emergency at the courthouse, I need an ambulance here right now. The judge has been shot.' 

The outlet also obtained footage showing the law enforcement response to the scene.

Mullins, who held the judgeship for 15 years, died at the scene, and Stines surrendered without incident. 

Stines pleaded not guilty to murder and has been held in another Kentucky county jail.

He stepped down as sheriff over a week after the shooting and his replacement, Billy Jones, was sworn in on October 1. 

Stines is accused of pumping eight bullets into his close friend after entering the judge's chambers at Letcher County Circuit Court in Kentucky for a private word and then shutting and locking the door. 

Just hours before it happened, they shared an outside table at the popular Streetside Grill & Bar on Main Street for lunch, only a few hundred yards from the courthouse.

The pair were lunchtime regulars together at the sports bar and on that fateful Thursday ordered their usual – both having the $13.99 wings with salad.

Stines, a beloved father of two who was reportedly planning to retire when his term ended, was Judge Mullins' bailiff before he became sheriff in 2018. 

After Stines' arraignment, his defense attorney Jeremy Bartley pointed to a deposition that Stines gave in  lawsuit in the days before the shooting as an important factor in the case. 

'I think the deposition has several important roles in this case,' Bartley said in a phone interview. 

'I think that there’s not a single factor, but I do think it’s going to be a large portion of the story we tell.'

According to a witness statement after the killing, Mullins was allegedly seen with an unidentified female in the same chambers where he was shot and killed. 

The allegation against the judge was made by Sabrina Adkins, a woman who was raped by one of Stines' deputies, Ben Fields, according to police audios.

'I seen Judge Mullins having sex with a girl... In his office, in the judge’s chambers,' she said in a recording of a police interview. 

Adkins can be also heard saying that former deputy sheriff Fields 'does have some videotapes of some stuff in the judge’s chambers… just with girls, sexual and stuff.'

She alleged that the tapes featured Fields and 'some higher ups' in the chambers having sex, suggesting there may be as-yet unidentified others involved in the sextortion scam. 

Adkins said in a federal lawsuit that she could not afford to pay for an ankle monitor and did not want to return to Letcher County Jail.

Fields then coerced her into performing sexual favors so she could remain under home incarceration, according to a federal lawsuit in 2022.

Stines was accused in a lawsuit of not properly training and supervising ex-deputy Fields, who served six months in jail after he coerced Adkins, who was on home incarceration, into sex for favors in Judge Mullins's chambers. 

Adkins attorney Ned Pillersdorf told NewsNation 'it’s like they (Mullins and Fields) were running a brothel out of that courtroom.'

Stiles has admitted to the shooting but pleaded not guilty to murder, arguing 'it was something that occurred in the heat of passion' and at most represented manslaughter. 

His attorney has alluded that his defense will be based on a lawsuit involving Stiles' former Deputy Sheriff Ben Fields, who pleaded guilty to using his position to extort sex from women.