DECATUR COUNTY, IN — A Greensburg man received a 10-year sentence this week after pleading guilty to an Aggravated Battery charge in connection with a stabbing last fall.
35-year-old Kyle Ray Kilgore was sentenced by Decatur Circuit Judge Tim Day to five years in prison with the remaining five years suspended to conditional supervised probation.
Court documents indicate police were called to a home on West Ashford Drive on September 19, 2021, in response to a reported stabbing.
Investigators say Kilgore was intoxicated when he showed up at the home, left, then returned and stabbed a man.
A Greensburg Police officer arrested Kilgore and found two knives on him – one of which had blood on it – while the other officer attended to the victim and a woman at the home who called 9-1-1.
Investigators say Kilgore’s blood alcohol content registered at .157, and he reportedly yelled an obscenity to the victim during the attack, in which the man was seriously wounded but survived.
Kilgore pleaded guilty in February to the Aggravated Battery charge, which is a Level 3 felony.
In sentencing Kilgore to prison, Judge Day allowed him to go through the Recovery While Incarcerated program in an effort to address his substance abuse issues.
One of the conditions of Kilgore’s probation is that he pays the victim’s medical bills.
Decatur County Prosecutor Attorney Nate Harter expressed satisfaction with the outcome.
“The court got this one right. Mr. Kilgore’s lengthy criminal history and escalating severity require him to sit apart from society for a while,” Harter said. “I hope he takes time to reflect on his larger choices in life and his short-term decision-making processes as well. Prison is the right place for him to do this thinking,”
Harter recognized Officer Jacob Mays and Sgt. Eric Lusk with the Greensburg Police Department, and EMS for their work on the scene and during the investigation.
“Kilgore’s record speaks for itself. It includes felony Residential Entry, Intimidation, and two separate Invasions of Privacy (violations of a protective order), Resisting Law Enforcement, three separate OWI offenses, three separate Public Intoxications, Public Indecency, two different Disorderly Conducts, Driving While Suspended, and now this dramatic escalation into major felony knife-wielding violence. I truly hope this time away allows him to gather the strength to turn his life around,” Harter said.
