A Campbellsville University student is dead after being found unresponsive in his dorm room early Saturday morning, and a fellow student is in custody.
The Campbellsville Police Department says that a male student, later identified as 18-year-old Josiah M. Kilman, was found unresponsive in his dorm room at around 12:43 a.m. Saturday, and was pronounced dead by the Taylor County Coroner’s Office after being transferred to Taylor Regional Hospital. The CPD says Kilman was transferred to the Kentucky State Medical Examiner’s Office in Louisville for an autopsy.
The CPD stated an arrest warrant was issued for 21-year-old Charles E. Escalera for Murder, and officers were searching for him in the Campbellsville area. Campbellsville University issued a lockdown of campus as a result of the search.
The CPD says at approximately 5:15 p.m. Saturday the Green County Sheriff’s Office and the Kentucky State Police were alerted to a suspicious male in a barn near the Green and Taylor County line. Escalera was located and taken into custody without incident.
Escalera is currently lodged in the Taylor County Detention Center on charges of Murder and second degree Burglary. He is being held on a $2 million full cash bond.
