A 25-year-old man brought chicken drumsticks and seasoning to his girlfriend’s apartment. He wanted to cook for her. He didn’t make it home.
Lukas Rosch is dead. And the details surrounding his death are the kind that don’t get nearly enough attention.
What Happened
On the evening of Friday, April 24, 2026, Waukesha County Sheriff’s deputies responded to an apartment in the Village of Lac La Belle, Wisconsin. They found Rosch with a stab wound to the chest. Standing inside the apartment was his 27-year-old girlfriend, Mikayla Kloth.
Rosch was rushed to the hospital, but he didn’t survive.
According to the criminal complaint, Kloth didn’t deny what she’d done. She told investigators directly — she stabbed him because she was angry. No elaborate story. No tearful breakdown. Just a flat admission and, on the ride to the police station, something that should turn your stomach: she said she “should have just gone to the bar” and that “the whole thing was irritating.”
Let that sit for a moment.
He Came Over With Chicken. She Wanted to Go Out.
This is where the story gets hard to process.
Kloth reportedly told police she hadn’t wanted Rosch to come over that night at all. She wanted to go out. Instead, he showed up at her door not with bad intentions, not with threats but with chicken drumsticks, seasoning, and plans to use the air fryer.
He was going to cook her dinner.
According to prosecutors, an argument broke out. Kloth said he “began pushing her buttons.” That was enough. She stabbed him in the chest.
When officers told her she was being arrested, her response was chilling in its casualness: “If they had to lock her up, that was cool.”
And in what may be the most haunting line in the entire complaint, Kloth reportedly said — unprompted — “if Victim A’s parents didn’t hate her before, they will hate her now.”
Not grief. Not remorse. Awareness.
He Knew. He Said It Out Loud.
Here’s the part of this story that deserves its own conversation.
Before that Friday night, Rosch had reportedly reached out to another woman — telling her that Kloth had bitten him on the thumb. He gave this woman his full name. He said: “please take my full name, in case something ever happens to me.”
That woman later told authorities that Rosch “genuinely seemed afraid” of Kloth.
Read that again. A 25-year-old man was frightened of his girlfriend. He documented it. He told someone. And still, he showed up at her apartment — maybe out of love, maybe out of habit, maybe because he didn’t believe it would really come to that.
It did.
The Uncomfortable Conversation We Need to Have
Male victims of domestic violence are chronically underdiscussed, underreported, and when they do come forward, often not taken seriously. Society has built robust frameworks for recognizing when women are in danger in relationships. Those frameworks are necessary. But they are not the full picture.
Lukas Rosch showed the warning signs of someone in a dangerous relationship. He was afraid. He said so. And yet here we are.
Kloth has been charged and appeared in court on Monday, where she was ordered to post a $2,000,000 cash bond. Her preliminary hearing is set for May 29.
Rosch’s parents, meanwhile, are burying their 25-year-old son — a young man who brought chicken to a dinner that was supposed to be just another Friday night.
