Days after Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines allegedly shot and killed District Judge Kevin Mullins in his court chambers, people in the county are still acclimating to the new status of things.

A Kentucky judge whom authorities said was fatally shot by a sheriff last week was remembered Sunday as a pioneer who fought against opioid addiction and favored treatment over jail for low-level drug offenders.

Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines, accused of killing Mullins, once served as a bailiff in the judge’s courtroom.