(Brookville, IN) – A Franklin County man who shot and wounded his wife and fired at a sheriff’s deputy has had his appeal unanimously denied by the Indiana Court of Appeals.
It was a few days before Christmas in December 2022, when deputies encountered Gregory Guilfoyle walking in the area of State Road 1 and U.S. 52 near Cedar Grove while holding his young daughter.
He reached for a weapon and was shot by Deputy Arin Bowers, who was struck in his protective vest and escaped injury.
The child was also not injured.
Guilfoyle was sentenced in May 2025 after jurors found him guilty but mentally ill on all eight counts stemming from the shooting of his wife Hannah and Deputy Bowers.
His appeal was based on the allegation that his insanity defense was not properly handled.
Guilfoyle’s prison sentence will stand after the Court ruled 3-0 against the appeal, but the penalty was reduced from 100 to 80 years.
“Our revision of Guilfoyle’s sentence should not be read to lessen the severity of the nature of his crimes, nor should it be read to mean that the trial court
abused its discretion in imposing Guilfoyle’s sentence,” the three-judge panel wrote in its opinion. “However, in the exercise of our constitutional authority to review and revise sentences, we
believe Guilfoyle’s 100-year sentence is inappropriate.”
