A Kentucky faculty wrestler was strangled in his dorm room this weekend, prompting an hours-long manhunt that led to a campus-wide lockdown and one other wrestler’s arrest on homicide fees.
Police had been referred to as to Campbellsville University round 12:43 a.m. Saturday when 18-year-old Josiah Kilman was discovered unresponsive.
The Kentucky State Medical Examiner’s Office decided that the coed’s explanation for dying was asphyxiation through guide strangulation, the Campbellsville Police Department wrote in a Monday press launch.
A warrant was issued for 21-year-old Charles Escalera’s arrest shortly after Kilman’s physique was discovered – police distributed safety pictures from a close-by Lowe’s, the place he was final seen. Escalera and Kilman had been each college students at Campbellsville.
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Charles Escalera, 21, was discovered hiding out in a barn by Kentucky State Police after a warrant was issued for his arrest within the dying of Josiah Kilman, 18. (Taylor County Detention Center)
Campbellsville University, a personal Christian faculty round 85 miles south of Louisville, was positioned on lockdown with college students ordered to “shelter in place.”
The faculty introduced that the lockdown was lifted and Escalera had been arrested at 6:43 p.m. through Twitter.
Kentucky Police carried out the arrest round 5:15 p.m. after receiving stories of a “suspicious male inside a barn,” in accordance with a media launch.
Escalera is in custody at Taylor County Detention Center with out bail. It was unclear whether or not he had retained an legal professional at press time.
“A motive for the crime is still undetermined at this time,” Campbellsville Police Chief Shannon Wilson wrote within the division’s launch. “However, the case is still ongoing.”
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Police distributed surveillance footage from a Campbellsville Lowe’s the place Escalera was final seen on Saturday. (Campbellsville Police Department)
Kilman, a Montana native, was listed on the college’s 2023-2024 wrestling group roster on-line. Escalera was on the group through the 2021-2022 faculty yr, in accordance with the varsity’s athletic web site, and gained the 106-pound wrestling state title in 2017, in accordance with the Kentucky High School Athletic Association.
It is unclear whether or not the 2 college students knew one another. The Taylor County Attorney’s workplace couldn’t be reached for remark at press time.
It is unclear whether or not Charles Escalera, 21, knew Josiah Kilman earlier than allegedly strangling him to dying. (Campbellsville Police Department)
After Escalera’s arrest, police urged college students on the faculty to “secure [their] residences, secure vehicles, and increase awareness of [their] surroundings,” in one other launch. The faculty hosted a prayer and therapeutic service on Sunday, in accordance its account on X.
“Josiah’s teammates are understandably devastated,” University President Joseph Hopkins mentioned on the Sunday occasion, in accordance with LEX18. “It is a powerful team. They are just so strong in their bond with one another [and] in their bond of faith.”
A GoFundMe organized by Kilman’s household to cowl his burial bills and transport his physique house to Montana has raised over $54,000.
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