Judge killed in Kentucky courthouse shooting, governor says

A district judge was shot and killed inside a courthouse in Kentucky on Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear said.

"Sadly, I have been informed that a district judge in Letcher County was shot and killed in his chambers this afternoon," Beshear posted on social media. 

The shooting took place at the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg, Kentucky, about two and a half hours southeast of Lexington, near the Virginia border.