Posted By: George Lawson April 19, 2021 @ 5:35 pm KFDI National News
By the Associated Press:
Police in Texas say a former sheriff’s deputy accused of killing his wife, teenager daughter and another man in a weekend shooting has been booked on a capital murder charge. Authorities on Monday arrested 41-year-old Stephen Broderick following an overnight manhunt.
Manor Police Chief Ryan Phipps says Broderick was arrested without incident along a rural road in an Austin suburb. Authorities identified the victims as 34-year-old Amanda Broderick, his former wife; Alyssa Marie Broderick, 17, his stepdaughter; and Willie Simmons III, 18, the teenager’s boyfriend.
Broderick is a former deputy with the Travis County Sheriff’s Office in Texas. Prosecutors say he left that job after he was arrested last year on a sexual assault charge.
A former Texas sheriff's deputy has been arrested and charged for killing three people, including his ex-wife and daughter, in a shooting in Austin on Sunday.
Joe Duggan
Updated: Apr 20 2021, 9:13 ET
AMANDA Broderick was one of three people allegedly shot dead by former Texas sheriff deputy Stephen Broderick.
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Who is Amanda Broderick?
The bodies were found at an apartment complex in the Arboretum shopping area where Amanda was meeting her ex-husband for a scheduled visit with their son, who was unharmed in the shooting.
Cops were called to the address shortly before midday on Sunday, April 18, 2021.
Interim Austin Police Chief Joseph Chacon said Broderick knew the victims but did not provide a motive for the shootings.
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Amanda and her daughter Alyssa were two of the victims
9-year-old son of Stephen Broderick sought driver s help after family killed, affidavit says
The boy was only a few days shy of his 10th birthday on the morning that he would see his mom, his half-sister and her boyfriend alive for the last time, as they pulled into a Northwest Austin parking lot for a scheduled supervised visit with his estranged father.
Instead of greeting his son with a hug and presents, the father rammed his vehicle into the family s car, pulled a handgun and began to fire without warning, the boy told police, forcing him to flee and seek shelter in a passing driver s car, according to court documents.