Police say a 23-year-old shot his father and stepfather after a chaotic early-morning confrontation in Greenville.

GREENVILLE, Ind. — A 23-year-old Floyd County man is accused of fatally shooting his father and stepfather inside a Greenville home before dawn after relatives tried to help him through a chaotic episode that began with him vomiting in a bedroom, according to court records and local authorities.

Investigators say the case turned in less than an hour from a family effort to calm Easton Goode into a double homicide scene and armed standoff. Goode is accused in the deaths of Kelly Goode, 55, and Bradley Butler, 53, and faces two murder counts and two criminal recklessness counts. The filing matters because it lays out the first detailed witness account of what happened inside the house and shows the case has already moved into early court proceedings.

According to the probable cause affidavit, the episode began about 4:45 a.m. when Goode’s mother found him on the floor of his room, vomiting. She called for her husband, Butler, to help get him back onto the bed, then returned downstairs. Investigators wrote that Goode soon came down and became verbally aggressive, leading to a wrestling fight with Butler that ended, at least briefly, with the two men hugging and apologizing. He went back upstairs, then later walked through the living room and into a hallway bathroom, where he stayed for several minutes.

When his mother knocked on the bathroom door to check on him, the affidavit says, he opened it while naked from the waist down and covered in feces. Butler came over, and another fight broke out. The filing says Butler put him in a bear hug, took him into the master bedroom and held him until he stopped fighting. The couple left him there hoping he would go to sleep. Instead, the mother called her ex-husband, Kelly Goode, and asked him to come to the house and take their son away to sober up. Kelly Goode arrived with a friend and roommate, and the affidavit says the scene turned deadly moments later.

Investigators wrote that Easton Goode emerged from the bedroom standing at the hallway entrance with one hand at his side, telling the others to “shut up” and saying, “I don’t want to hear it.” His mother then realized he had a gun in his hand, according to the filing. She told police she knew there was a .40-caliber Taurus handgun in Butler’s bedroom but believed it had been placed in a small gun safe earlier. The affidavit says Easton Goode shot Kelly Goode first, causing him to fall immediately, then raised the gun and shot Butler as he sat nearby. The mother and Kelly Goode’s friend ran from the house, and the mother called 911.

Deputies were dispatched to the 6700 block of Georgetown-Greenville Road at about 5:45 a.m., according to the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office. Officers arrived roughly 10 minutes later believing the suspect was still armed inside. The affidavit says officers repeatedly ordered him to come out but got no response. At 6:35 a.m., they saw him running naked through the house. Seven minutes later, officers breached a rear door, deployed a flash-bang and arrested him. Investigators say Goode later admitted shooting both men. Police also documented what the detective described as a bullet hole through the mother’s shirt, a detail tied to the criminal recklessness allegations.

The case quickly shifted from a crime scene to a courtroom. Court records and local TV reports say Goode was held without bond in the Floyd County Jail. His attorney, Evan Bardach, asked for a mental health evaluation and a medical referral after Goode’s first appearance, saying there were apparent injuries and that a full evaluation was appropriate. Separate reporting on the case also noted a prior 2023 felony battery case in which court records said Goode punched an autistic friend, fracturing the man’s jaw in five places. That earlier case is not part of the homicide charges, but it adds background as the new prosecution moves ahead.

The record still leaves important questions unanswered. Investigators have not publicly explained how the handgun was removed from the safe or whether toxicology evidence will be part of the prosecution. The affidavit describes Goode as drunk and out of control, but it does not resolve his exact condition at the time of the shootings. What is clear from the filing is how many people were close to the gunfire. The mother said she was nearly hit, and Kelly Goode’s friend was standing nearby when the shots were fired. Those details turned a private family emergency into a case with multiple witnesses and a broad evidence trail.

Goode’s case was set for a pretrial conference on April 16, with a jury trial scheduled for July 20. As of the latest reports, Goode remained jailed in Floyd County while prosecutors prepared the murder case and defense lawyers pursued further evaluation.

Author note: Last updated April 6, 2026.