{"id":58552,"date":"2026-10-21T03:45:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=58552"},"modified":"2026-10-21T01:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:36:44","slug":"man-sentenced-in-sword-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/man-sentenced-in-sword-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Sentenced In Sword Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"46328\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/grayson-county-homicide-suspect-arrested\/george-greer\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/George-Greer.jpg?fit=164%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"164,175\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Beverly Hunt&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"George Greer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/George-Greer.jpg?fit=164%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/George-Greer.jpg?resize=164%2C175\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46328\" \/><br \/>\nA Falls of Rough man who killed one person and seriously injured two others in a sword attack has been sentenced to nearly three decades in prison.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>George Greer, 50, pled guilty to murder, two counts of attempted murder and theft by unlawful taking on Tuesday (10\/20) in a Grayson County courtroom for the February 2024 incident that resulted in the death of Greer\u2019s girlfriend\u2019s mother, 59 year-old Teresa Boles. Seriously injured in the rampage were Greer\u2019s girlfriend, 34-year-old Laura Tabor and her father, 60-year-old Joseph Boles. <\/p>\n<p>Greer confessed to investigators to being under the influence of drugs and admitted to killing one female and assaulting another female and a male with a samurai sword\u201d on Indian Ridge Road. Police caught up with Greer after a pursuit near Short Creek, where Greer got a stolen vehicle stuck in the mud on Edwards Cemetery Road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sentences were structured to result in a total sentence of 35 years in the custody of the Kentucky Department of Corrections,\u201d according to Kentucky State Police Post 4 Public Affairs Officer Bryan Washer, the chief investigator in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Falls of Rough man who killed one person and seriously injured two others in a sword attack has been sentenced to nearly three decades in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":46328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-main-news","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-feo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-10-27 20:25:52","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[69],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/George-Greer.jpg?fit=164%2C175&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58553,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58552\/revisions\/58553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}