Former Austin detective Stephen Broderick was jailed last year for charges on r*ping a minor.
The wife of Stephen Broderick, Amanda, comments on his behavior and was afraid that he would murder her and their kids, which recently happened last Sunday.
The tragedy was followed by a chain of events, with Broderick being arrested while he was walking along the US 290, since two people had informed the police of a man carrying a firearm around in public.
The victims were his wife, Amanda, his daughter, Alyssa, and Alyssa’s boyfriend, Willie Simmons. His wife was 35 and his daughter was only 16.
Amanda’s attorney had been trying to protect Stephen’s family from him, but failed to do so. Her attorney had to confirm her death last Monday. One of their children, assumed to be Broderick’s son, was not harmed in the incident.
Broderick had been a former detective for the Travis County Sheriff’s Office until last June 2020 under the suspicions of sexually assaulting a minor, who was also the same age as his daughter. There is no clear identity of the victim, but it was a family member who reported the crime against Broderick.
He was released from custody after a $50,000 bond, being told not to be within close proximity of his daughter, Alyssa.
Before Amanda’s death, she pleaded with courts to grant a protective order because she was “afraid he will try to hurt me or my children, because these allegations have come out and he may lose his career. If he wanted to hurt someone, he would know how.”
Although there was a file in motion to retract the bond that he had posted, he had already killed his wife, daughter, and daughter’s boyfriend. Once the school district found out about the kids’ deaths, they released a statement saying: “We are heartbroken by the news of this senseless tragedy, and we extend our deepest condolences to the families of Willie Simmons III and Alyssa Broderick.”
Friends of the couple comments and said they were both “destined for greatness.”
The alleged assault that happened last year took place in a home that was 20 miles east of Austin. The victim affected in the incident told her mother and went to a medical exam to confirm that the abuse ever happened.
Shots from Broderick’s gun were reported on the day of the murders, APD believed that it was a “domestic situation” and did not pose a risk to the general public. Though later, reporters are told that the police were informing those around Broderick to take shelter at home because he could possibly “take a hostage.”
He has now been caught as seen in recent footage that has been released.