A person is in custody after a shooting Thursday afternoon at a courthouse in Whitesburg, according to Kentucky State Police. It was not immediately clear if anyone was injured in the shooting. Several area schools were briefly placed on lockdown, including Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College and Letcher County Schools.

After word spread that Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Mickey Stines was charged with first-degree murder, and that Kevin Mullins, a district judge, had been shot, Kentucky leaders and community members saw yet another local act of gun violence make national news.