Authorities say a suspect remained inside the home after the shootings, forcing a controlled entry and arrest.
GREENVILLE, Ind. — Floyd County deputies answering a before-dawn shooting call at a home on Georgetown-Greenville Road found two men dead, an armed suspect still inside and a scene that investigators say grew out of a family effort to control a spiraling confrontation.
The case now stands at the intersection of emergency response and criminal prosecution. Authorities identified the dead men as Kelly Goode, 55, and Bradley Butler, 53, and accused Easton Goode, 23, of killing them. The sheriff’s response timeline, combined with the later affidavit, matters because it shows how officers approached the house, what they encountered before making entry and how those early steps fed into murder and criminal recklessness charges.
The Floyd County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called at about 5:45 a.m. to the 6700 block of Georgetown-Greenville Road in Greenville. When officers arrived about 10 minutes later, they believed the suspect was still inside with a gun. The affidavit says officers issued loud commands for him to come out and got no response. At 6:35 a.m., they saw him running naked through the home. At 6:42 a.m., officers breached the rear door, used a flash-bang device and arrested him. Investigators then found the two men dead inside from apparent gunshot wounds and began interviewing the surviving witnesses.
Those interviews gave police the account that now defines the prosecution. The mother told investigators the trouble began around 4:45 a.m. when she found her son vomiting on the floor of his room. Butler, her husband, helped get him onto the bed. The affidavit says Goode later came downstairs and became verbally aggressive, leading to a wrestling match with Butler that ended with both men hugging and apologizing. After another trip upstairs and several minutes in a bathroom, he came out partly undressed and covered in feces. Butler restrained him again in what the affidavit called a bear hug and held him in the bedroom until he stopped fighting.
The mother then made the call that brought Kelly Goode to the house. She asked her ex-husband to come help and take their son away to sober up, according to the affidavit. Kelly Goode arrived with a friend and roommate. Police say Easton Goode came out from the bedroom area, stood at the hallway entrance and began yelling for everyone to be quiet. His mother noticed a handgun in his hand. She told investigators she believed a .40-caliber Taurus pistol kept in Butler’s bedroom had earlier been secured in a small safe. The affidavit says Easton Goode shot Kelly Goode first, then turned and shot Butler.
From an investigative standpoint, the surviving witnesses added key evidence beyond the shots themselves. The mother and Kelly Goode’s friend ran outside after the gunfire, and the mother called 911. Detectives later wrote that she showed them a bullet hole in her shirt and said she had nearly been hit. That detail helped support the recklessness counts alleging danger to others in the home. Investigators also wrote that Easton Goode admitted shooting both men when police spoke with him after the arrest. The affidavit does not yet answer every question, including how the handgun was accessed or what testing may show about his condition.
As the response phase ended, the court phase began. Local reports from Goode’s first appearance said defense lawyer Evan Bardach asked for a mental health evaluation and medical referral, citing apparent injuries. Reporting tied to that hearing also highlighted a 2023 battery case in which Goode pleaded guilty after fracturing an autistic friend’s jaw in five places. That older case is not part of the current prosecution, but it became part of the public record surrounding the hearing as lawyers and the court began sorting through what comes next.
The structure of the new case is now clear even if some facts are not. Prosecutors moved ahead with two murder counts and two criminal recklessness counts. Court records and news reports said Goode was being held in the Floyd County Jail without bond. Indiana court resources list Floyd County as the venue for further proceedings, and local reporting said the next settings included a pretrial conference on April 16 and a jury trial on July 20. Those dates will likely be the next moments when more of the investigative record becomes public.
What remains, beyond the filings and timestamps, is a compressed span of less than two hours in which a welfare call inside a home became a tactical police entry and a double-murder case. As of the latest reports, the deaths remained under prosecution in Floyd County, with the next scheduled court milestone set for April 16.
Author note: Last updated April 6, 2026.