Kyle Allen Wireman, of Souderton. (Credit: PA Department of Corrections.)
A Souderton man out on parole after being sentenced in 2017 to five to 15 years in state prison for supplying drugs that killed his friend in Bucks County is now facing felony charges after police allege he violently assaulted another man outside a local bar last month.
According to a criminal complaint by Souderton Police, officers were called to the parking lot of Old Indian Valley Inn at 101 E. Broad St. shortly after 2:30 a.m. June 6, 2025, where they found the victim bleeding heavily from a head wound and a fractured nose.
The victim told police he had been sucker-punched by Kyle Allen Wireman, 37, following a verbal argument that began earlier inside the bar, police allege.
The victim reported that as he walked home, Wireman approached him from behind in the parking lot, yelled at him, and then struck him in the face without warning, according to the affidavit.
The blow caused the victim to fall backward and hit his head on the pavement, resulting in a laceration that required five staples and a confirmed nasal fracture.
Surveillance footage from a nearby street camera corroborated the account, showing Wireman walking away as the victim lay injured on the ground, police said in the complaint.
Wireman turned himself in to police with his attorney on June 17 and admitted to striking the victim, police said.
He was formally charged on July 2 with aggravated assault, as well as misdemeanor counts of simple assault, reckless endangerment, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct, and an ordinance violation of disturbing the peace, per the criminal complaint.
Wireman remains jailed in Montgomery County jail on $5,077 cash bail, which includes a parole detainer, since July 8.
He was released on parole on Dec. 14, 2020, according to state Parole Board records.
Kyle Allen Wireman, of Souderton. (Credit: Bucks County District Attorney, 2017.)Regarding the drug delivery resulting in death case, Wireman killed Justin Eschenburg, 30, whom he had known since they were teenagers, in the victim’s Trumbauersville home in Fall 2015.
“I’m sorry, and I know that’s not good enough. I pray for you every day,” Wireman told Eschenburg’s family at his May 2017 sentencing. “Your son was a good friend to me, and I never meant to hurt him.”
On Nov. 3, 2015, Eschenburg’s father found him dead of a drug overdose in his home, his face pressed against his bed. The night before, Eschenburg had crushed and snorted a blue pill that Wireman had given him – a pill that both men believed was Percocet, a painkiller, according to Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn.
Instead, the pill turned out to be a combination of fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl, synthetic opioids that are many times more potent than morphine or heroin, Schorn said. It was part of a deadly batch of 30 pills that a drug dealer named Brianna Burns had bought in Camden, N.J., a few days earlier, according to the DA.
Wireman and Burns, 23, of Souderton, pleaded guilty in Bucks County Common Pleas Court to drug delivery resulting in death, involuntary manslaughter, delivery of a controlled substance and other charges, according to court records.
“As a direct result of your conduct, sir, a young man is dead,” Judge Raymond F. McHugh told Wireman in 2017. “Opiates today are the devil’s drug. They steal souls and harden hearts … They take you into a long, slow descent into hell on earth.”
Deputy District Attorney Thomas C. Gannon, who prosecuted the case, told McHugh that Wireman had bought three of the pills from Burns in Sellersville, and took them later that day to Eschenburg’s residence.
Wireman gave two of the pills to Eschenburg, who was suffering from back pain, as partial payment for a debt he owed. Wireman swallowed the third pill himself with Eschenburg before leaving his friend’s home. Not long after, Wireman testified, he was sick and throwing up.
He and Eschenburg exchanged text messages that evening about how potent the pills were, but Wireman said he assumed his friend was in no more distress than he was and did not go back to check on him.
“I was throwing up,” he testified. “But I didn’t think he would be any worse off than I was.”
When Eschenburg did not respond to phone calls and text messages the next day, his father, Gary, went to his residence and found him dead. It was the second child he and his wife, Peggy, had lost to tragedy; a car crash had killed their eldest daughter 15 years earlier.
“If I can indulge the court and the defendants for a few minutes, I would like to ask you to close your eyes and visualize the unspeakable moments we had to endure that evening,” Peggy Eschenburg wrote in a statement that was read aloud in court by the couple’s surviving daughter. “Crying, screaming, shock … more shattered dreams for our family.”
Distraught upon learning of Eschenburg’s death, Wireman said he went to state police immediately and confessed to his role.
“Kyle has the biggest heart of anyone I’ve ever met,” testified Lisa Jones, a family friend who said she has known him since birth. “He was torn up. He couldn’t live with himself because of what had happened.”
The same day that Wireman purchased drugs from Burns, she sold the same variety of pills to a Montgomery County man who also died after taking them. Burns pleaded guilty to endangering that man, but was not charged with his death because the coroner could not exclude other factors contributing to his passing, according to Schorn.
“The defendants, by their callous self-centeredness … have robbed us of his and our future,” Peggy Eschenburg wrote. “There will be no wedding, no children, no new business, no laughter, no silly family moments.”
Mrs. Eschenburg urged Wireman and Burns to “please look at your families’ faces and make a pledge that this is the beginning of your reformation. Be human, be alive with feeling and compassion for others! At least you have a future.”
In addition to the prison time, McHugh ordered Wireman to repay, along with Burns, more than $5,000 toward Justin Eschenburg’s funeral expenses.
According to court records, Wireman pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DUI in April 2014 and received 48 hours to six months maximum in Montgomery County jail, with credit for 103 days served.
In April 2014, he was sentenced to four to 23 months in Montgomery County jail after pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault charges. In April 2018, Wireman was sentenced to nine to 24 months in Montgomery County jail after pleading guilty to recklessly endangering another person, per court records.
A preliminary hearing was moved from July 23 to Aug. 13 at 1:30 p.m. before Magisterial District Judge Adam T. Katzman. He is represented by Quakertown private defense attorney William Buchanan.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
