Braedon Riley Wilson-Bowling, 25, Greenfield
HANCOCK COUNTY — A Greenfield man is facing felony gun and escape charges after officials say he was in possession of firearms when he was not supposed to have them. Then the man fled after a warrant for his arrest was served last week.
Braedon Riley Wilson-Bowling, 25, 1100 block of Oak Boulevard has been charged with three different Level 4 felony counts of unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon from an incident on Aug. 5. Wilson-Bowling didn’t help his situation when he fled police Aug. 6 after they served an arrest warrant. Wilson-Bowling caused officials to search for him for hours near U.S. 40 and Gem Road late in the evening of Aug. 6. Due to that incident, he’s also been hit with a Level 5 felony charge of escape.
Wilson-Bowling’s Level 4 gun case were opened in Hancock County Circuit Court late last week. Judge Scott Sirk set a $50,000 cash bond and appointed a public defender. Court records show Wilson-Bowling is due back in court in mid-December for a pretrial conference on those charges.
The case against Wilson-Bowling on the Level 5 escape charge was opened in Hancock County Superior Court 1 late last week. Judge D.J. Davis set a cash bond of $10,000 or a $50,000 surety bond and appointed a public defender, court records show. Wilson-Bowling has a pretrial conference in that case set for Wednesday, Aug. 21.
According to a probable cause affidavit, an official with the Greenfield Police Department was dispatched Aug. 5 for a personal injury accident in the 500 block of West 200N. When officials arrived, Wilson-Bowling was found on the ground beside the vehicle after it appeared to have side-swiped a tree.
Officials noted Wilson-Bowling was saying things like, “I should have died,” the affidavit said. Wilson-Bowling told officials he was speeding and lost control of his vehicle after he had been drinking that day.
According to the affidavit, during an investigation of the scene, officials found a tactical vest, a holster, a loaded handgun with two magazines, a loaded pump-action shotgun and a loaded AR-15 along with several rounds of ammunition. Officials also noted in the report that Wilson-Bowling asked a witness not to call the police following the crash.
When officials reached out to Wilson-Bowling the next day when he was in a hospital — in an attempt to get him to surrender due to a warrant for his arrest — officials noted that he shared suicidal thoughts with his probation officer and the police investigating his case. Officials tried to get him to go to Community North for an evaluation, which he said he would and that they’d meet him there, but he did not show up, a probable cause affidavit said.
Wilson-Bowling was eventually arrested in downtown Indianapolis and taken to Hancock County. When the police officer transporting him reached the area of U.S. 40 and CR 600W, the officer stated that there was a light indicator showing Wilson-Bowling, who was in double handcuffs sitting in the front seat, had taken his seat belt off, the affidavit said.
Officials said that Wilson-Bowling was able to get the passenger side door open and, as the officer pulled over and radioed for help, Wilson-Bowling eventually took off near the Shamrock Motel, 5239W U.S. 40. Officials set up a large perimeter and after a four-hour search eventually found the suspect in a detached garage off of CR West 100S.
A look at Wilson-Bowling’s records show that he does have a criminal past with both drug and gun issues dating back to 2018.
