Source: beneaththesurfacenews.com 6/2/25
An Erath County jury of seven men and five women were seated on Monday in the trial of Charles Austin Broyles, a suspect unofficially dubbed the “vigilante shooter.”
Broyles is being tried for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with shooting a registered sex offender in the face in December 2023.
He is being represented by Stephenville attorneys Ryan Taylor and Brady Pendleton.
According to the arrest affidavit, Broyles was targeting registered sex offenders living in Erath County, accessing the list of names and addresses from the public sex offender website.
If convicted, Broyles faces two to 20 years in prison.
Sentence him to death because it is not fit to live in society.
If the prosecutor does his job (meaning: no ‘get off easy’ plea-deals), this man should receive a stiff prison sentence for his crime, and ordered to make restitution to his victim(s).
Unfortunately, upon arrival at prison, we all know that he will be received as a “hero”, and asked to recount his exploits to the glee of many of his fellow inmates.
To protect our community, perhaps we should lobby for new laws pertaining to these violent vigilantes – (1) Lifetime ‘supervised release’ (2) Establishment of ‘civil regulations’ restricting them from residing within 1000 ft. of any RSO (3) Being barred from employment where any RSO is employed (3) No computer access outside of work, and of course (4) Mandatory monthly drug testing. I’m sure we can think of some other ‘reasonable’ regulations. I think it’s only fair.
Another example of ” street justice” here in the US and why the registry needs to be abolished. How many registrants have been targeted for being on the hit list? How many innocent people have been targeted for looking like a registrant, having a similar name, and being related to someone on the registry?
Caution cases like these will only continue as long as the registry lives and society calls these people heroes.
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I would encourage people to call the DA there and convey your support as a PFR. If you have an experience ( one that can be officially verified ) that would give them ammo for prosecuting this heinous act, I’m sure the DA’s office would be appreciative.
Justices need to be made aware that this isn’t an isolated crime and that we as PFRs have the same rights and protections that the justice system provides to every other person.
thx,
Targeted assassination by use of a public list is only 20 years? What’s required for life or capital punishment in TX?