By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
A Glasgow man charged with murder will have his case forwarded to a Barren County grand jury.
Twenty-one-year-old Braxton Haley is charged with murder in the death of Justin Satterly on Dec. 26, 2025. Haley appeared via Zoom before District Judge Gabe Pendleton on Monday, Jan. 5. Glasgow police officer John DuBarry II provided testimony during the hearing.
DuBarry read from the uniform citation that stated that an apparently intoxicated Satterly, 32, of Glasgow, had been arguing with Haley’s sister, Vanna, and entered 305 Frazier Ave. while Braxton Haley and Vanna Haley were inside. Braxton Haley feared for his life, according to the uniform citation. DuBarry was the arresting officer.
DuBarry said he was “familiar” with Satterly and Vanna Haley due to prior verbal and domestic altercations.
After asking a series of questions, Braxton Haley’s attorney, Kevin Parent, argued that Pendleton should not send the case to a grand jury because the shooting was done in self defense.
“To sum this up: we had multiple 911 calls, we have an officer responding a second time seeing Satterly in the middle of the road acting agitated [and] possibly intoxicated based on neighbor’s observations, he was actively being searched for by police, and [police] advised Braxton and Vanna to lock the doors,” Parent said. “Based on the testimony, we had damage to the back door, damage to the front door and additional damage to the second story [door]…I would ask probable cause not be found that the force used was unlawful.”
John Gardner, the commonwealth’s attorney, countered that probable cause had been found since the shooting was “not justified,” noting that Satterly did not have a weapon at the time of the shooting.
“This was not a justified shooting,” Gardner said. “First of all the officers arrived on scene previously were told there was verbal altercations between parties and there’s not any allegations of physical altercations, Satterly was a resident of this house and had a right to be in the house as well. Then he makes entry upstairs, again, there’s no indication he was armed with weapons; he stopped at the top of the steps [and] did not proceed further attempting to assault the individuals upstairs in that room. Instead Haley went and got a firearm and shot him in the back.”
“The commonwealth believes there is probable cause,” he added.
Pendleton agreed that probable cause had been found in the case, and that he would take Braxton Haley’s $750,000 cash bond under advisement, which Parent argued for, while Gardner said he believed it to be appropriate given the class A felony.
The case now moves to the grand jury for possible indictment.
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