(Kenosha County Sheriff)
KENOSHA, Wis. — Nearly a year after a Kenosha father was found dead from a drug overdose, the man accused of delivering the fatal dose has pleaded guilty in court.
Terrell I. Christor, 36, of Gurnee, Illinois, appeared in Kenosha County Circuit Court on Monday and entered a guilty plea to one count of first-degree reckless homicide. Christor had been scheduled to face trial on the charge but instead opted to resolve the case with a plea. He is now set to be sentenced on September 17, 2025, by Judge Jason Rossell.
Christor faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
The charge stems from the June 27, 2023, death of 33-year-old Kyle Hadle, who was found unresponsive in the bedroom of his Kenosha home by a friend of his girlfriend. Two young children were in the residence at the time of his death.
Hadle’s girlfriend, Alicia Battellini, told police that she had last heard from him around 11 p.m. on June 26 — his birthday — while she was working an overnight shift. She later became worried when he stopped responding and sent a friend to check on him. That friend found Hadle unconscious and administered Narcan, but he could not be revived. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.
Police found drug paraphernalia in the room, including syringes and a soda can with a brown liquid and a cotton filter, often used to prepare heroin for injection. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner determined the cause of death to be mixed drug toxicity involving fentanyl, diazepam, buprenorphine, bromazolam, and ethanol.
According to the criminal complaint, Battellini identified Christor as Hadle’s drug source. She told investigators that Hadle had overdosed earlier that spring but survived and admitted afterward that Christor was the one who sold him the drugs. She said Christor often dealt heroin out of a Gurnee hotel near Timothy O’Toole’s pub and occasionally made deliveries to Kenosha for an added fee.
Detectives tracked cell phone records, which revealed that Hadle and Christor exchanged 43 messages between 9:35 p.m. and 10:53 p.m. on the night of the overdose. Around the same time, Hadle made three Cash App payments totaling $180 to an account later confirmed to be associated with Christor. Investigators also obtained cell tower data showing that Christor’s phone traveled north from Illinois and pinged near Hadle’s home in south Kenosha around 10:46 p.m., placing him in the vicinity at the time of the suspected delivery.
After Hadle’s death, Christor searched for his name on Facebook, and messages retrieved from Christor’s phone showed ongoing conversations with others about buying heroin, crack cocaine, and methamphetamine.
(Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
In a statement following the plea, Kenosha County District Attorney Xavier Solis said, “This conviction holds accountable a dealer who profited from poisoning our community. The victim was a father of two small children, and his life was cut short by a lethal cocktail of drugs pushed into our county from across state lines. Our office will continue to pursue justice for victims and their families. Thank you to the Kenosha Police Department for their diligent work on this case.”
The case was investigated by Kenosha Police Detective Brechue and prosecuted by the Kenosha County District Attorney’s Office. Christor was formally charged on October 20, 2023, and has remained in custody since. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on September 17 in Branch 2.
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13 Responses
Inject him with enough crap to kill him. Justice done.
Yes this needs to stop and look at the smug smirk on his face! SMH!
This is like charging a cashier at a gun store for selling bullets used in a suicide. You can’t control what people choose to do with their drugs. Not sure why dealing drugs isn’t legalized…. Darwin is at work, stop preventing the trash taking itself out.
Amen
your comparison is crap
Cashier doesn’t know bullet us for suicide…ur first flaw
You’re what’s trash. Addiction is a real thing and doesn’t define who a person truly is as a human being. Kyle was an amazing man who loved his children & family, but was fighting demons. Dealers who feed into the vulnerable people just to get paid instead of working a real job are trash. They should have consequences as well. This man plead guilty because he is guilty. He deserves to be where he is.
Anonymous..interesting..u out another not named, but not yourself.
People buy drugs because of various reasons but not to die. Selling killing drugs under advertisement of something to make one ‘feel good ” us not truthful advertising.
Hopefully Tanya McLean’s homegirl Olivia Crudup (also an Executive Board Member of their money laundering group “Leaders” of Kenosha) is next. Well-known fentanyl dealer. Was one of Jeremy Walker’s (pedo) suppliers.
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Always knew she was shady….didn’t she steal from the homeless pantry too??
Yes she did along with that creepy “pastor”