Chilling details emerge in 'dorm room murder' of Josiah Kilman as suspect Charles Escalera arrested after manhunt | M1STP86 | 2024-03-04 19:08:01
Josiah Kilman, 18, a student-athlete at Campbellsville University, a personal
DISTURBING particulars have emerged concerning the murder of a freshman school scholar who was found strangled to dying in his dorm room.
Josiah Kilman, 18, a student-athlete at Campbellsville University, a personal Christian institute in Campbellsville, Kentucky, about 86 miles southeast of Louisville, was discovered unresponsive& in his dorm within the early hours of February 24.
Kilman, a theology major and member of the college's wrestling staff, was declared lifeless on the hospital.
An post-mortem carried out by the Kentucky State Medical Examiner's Workplace determined that Kilman died of asphyxia by manual strangulation.
Campbellsville police arrested Charles Escalera, 21, in connection with Kilman's dying later within the day on February 24.
Police stated Escalera is a sophomore at Campbellsville University, majoring in pre-engineering, and was Kilman's wrestling teammate.
It's unclear whether or not Kilman, initially from Columbia Falls, Montana, about 3 hours south of the Canada–United States border, and Escalera have been roommates – though Kilman was stated to have lived with three others.
But now, new particulars have emerged concerning the Kilman's demise and the hours resulting in Escalera's arrest.
The university and its 12,000 college students have been positioned on lockdown requiring everyone to shelter in place.
The wrestling workforce have been stated to have taken shelter at their coach's residence while police looked for Escalera, based on Fox News Digital.
They have been getting ready to travel to Kansas for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics' national wrestling championships.
The manhunt for Escalera got here to a head when Kentucky State Police acquired a tip from a farmer in Inexperienced County who witnessed a suspicious individual go inside a barn.
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> Escalera was arrested without incident, police stated.
He was charged with homicide and second-degree housebreaking – reportedly for stealing food whereas on the run – and is being held on $2 million bond.
A preliminary courtroom listening to is scheduled for this week in Taylor County Circuit Courtroom.&
Campbellsville police, in the meantime, haven't launched a motive for the killing.
'COMPASSION, KINDNESS, AND LOVE'
Kilman's family mourned the teen's dying, whom they described as compassionate and loving.
"Josiah influenced many hearts as he was a real instance of compassion, kindness, and love," the family stated in a press release to NBC affiliate WLEX-TV.
"His example compelled so many others to make the same modifications he wished to see on the earth, and his influence on their lives will never really be forgotten."
Cousin Sarah Prepare dinner informed Fox News Digital that Kilman attended the university on a biblical scholarship.
O'Brien Byrd, the top coach of the Columbia Falls Excessive Faculty soccer staff the place Kilman performed, referred to as the 18-year-old a pacesetter who taught younger youngsters the game at an annual summer time camp.
"He was a full-blooded American teenage boy, a rascal like all of us are in these years," Byrd advised the outlet.
"He appreciated to tug pranks and tell jokes. He was identical to all of his buddies in that regard.
"But he had such great leadership traits. He all the time was capable of say the exhausting issues to his buddies.
"In society at the moment, youngsters are afraid to speak up and say things which might be unpopular. But Josiah by no means had a problem with that, he would say what they needed to hear.
"He all the time knew when younger eyes have been on him… he knew those little youngsters have been wanting up to him, and he wasn't going to waste that chance to make an impression in the best means."
Tyler Gilfry, 19, Kilman's childhood in Columbia Falls, described his late good friend as an "outstanding human being."
"He wasn't the dude to start out fights, but he was a dude that everybody like – I can see someone getting jealous over him just being himself," Gilfry advised the outlet.
"Someone who was scuffling with themselves seeing someone so excellent and outgoing, just a great human being.
"That's all I can think of. I can't see anyone who would need to do this to Josiah."
Kilman is survived by his mother and father, Jessica and Joe, and his four siblings.
A GoFundMe has raised greater than $65,000 to transport Kilman's physique house and assist with funeral expenses.
Campbellsville police advised The U.S. Sun there are not any new updates and a motive for Kilman's killing continues to be undetermined.
Charles Escalera is a sophomore at Campbellsville University[/caption]
CAMPUS TRAGEDIES
Kilman is the fourth on-campus murder that has occurred nationwide in February.
Samuel Knopp, 24, and Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, have been found shot to death inside a dorm at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, on February 16.
Enraged roommate Nicholas Jordan, 25, was arrested in reference to the murders.
Colorado Springs Police Department stated Jordan and Knopp had previously bumped heads over the cleanliness of the dorm they shared with a 3rd roommate.
Knopp had beforehand complained to Jordan about his smoking marijuana and cigarettes and his dwelling space's cleanliness, in accordance with an affidavit.
Investigators stated Jordan previously threatened to "kill" Knopp if he was asked to take out the trash once more.
Less than every week after that capturing, 22-year-old nursing scholar Laken Hope Riley& was found dead on the grounds of the University of Georgia in Athens,& Georgia, about an hour east of& Atlanta.
Jose Antonio Ibarra was arrested in connection to Riley's February 22 homicide in what police stated was a criminal offense of opportunity.
An autopsy ruled that Riley, who was out on a morning jog on the day of her homicide, died of blunt pressure trauma from an unidentified object.
Ibarra, a Venezuelan immigrant, beat Riley so viciously that her cranium was disfigured when she was found, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.
He's charged with& malice homicide, felony homicide,& aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 name, and concealing the demise of another.
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