Complaint: Dinner dispute led to deadly stabbing
By Tanner Kahler
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WAUKESHA COUNTY, Wisconsin (WISN) — Prosecutors said a dispute over dinner may have led to a deadly stabbing at an apartment in the Village of Lac La Belle.
Mikayla Kloth, 27, was charged Monday with first-degree intentional homicide.
According to prosecutors, the crime happened Friday, April 24, at Kloth’s apartment on Wisconsin Avenue in the Village of Lac La Belle. Responding officers arrived on scene to find a man with a stab wound in the chest. Prosecutors said Kloth, who was standing in the apartment, told an officer on scene she stabbed the man because she was angry at him.
The victim later died at a hospital. Family identified him to WISN 12 News as Lukas Rosch, 25.
On the way to the police station, the complaint said Kloth made “excited utterances, stating she should have just gone to the bar, and the whole thing was irritating.”
The complaint adds, “While transporting her, the defendant stated that if Victim A’s parents didn’t hate her before, they will hate her now.”
Prosecutors said during an interview with police, Kloth told them she did not want Rosch to come over for dinner that night. Rather, she wanted to go out. Rosch “proceeded to come over to the apartment and he had chicken drumsticks, seasoning, and was planning on using the air fryer,” prosecutors said. “The defendant stated Victim A began pushing her buttons, she was upset and an argument ensued.”
According to the complaint, Kloth admitted to stabbing Rosch and took full responsibility, stating, “If they had to lock her up, that was cool.”
A week before the stabbing, the criminal complaint said Rosch was speaking to another woman and the apartment landlord. Rosch stated he had been bitten in the thumb by the defendant. The woman said Rosch “genuinely seemed afraid” of Kloth and stated, “Please take my full name, in case something ever happens to me.”
Kloth made her initial appearance in court on Monday. The court set cash bond at $2,000,000. Her preliminary hearing is set for May 29.
Rosch’s family shared a statement with WISN 12 News that said,
We are completely broken at the tragic and senseless loss of our son, Lukas John Rosch, the most loving, giving, kind-hearted person anyone could ever meet. We are just asking for privacy at this time as we try to process.
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