Church musician who unloaded entire clip into wife and 2 kids to ‘make sure they didn’t suffer’ and then was ‘too scared’ to kill himself learns his fate

A erstwhile church musician successful Florida volition walk the remainder of his days down bars for sidesplitting his woman of 3 decades and their 2 big children wrong their household location astir 4 years ago, shooting each household subordinate aggregate times due to the fact that helium wanted “to marque definite they didn’t suffer.” Nassau County Judge Steve M. Fahlgren on Tuesday ordered William C. Broyles to service beingness successful a authorities correctional installation without parole for the 2021 slayings of his atomic family.

The condemnation was handed down aft Broyles formally pleaded blameworthy to 3 counts of first-degree execution for fatally shooting his wife, 57-year-old Candace L. Broyles; his daughter, 27-year-old Cora Lynn Broyles; and his son, 28-year-old Aaron Christopher Broyles.

According to tribunal documents, deputies with the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office connected the greeting of Dec. 1, 2021, responded to a 911 telephone astatine the family’s location connected Deer Run Road successful Callahan, Florida. The caller identified himself arsenic Broyles and told the exigency dispatcher helium had ” conscionable changeable his wife, son, and daughter, and helium was extracurricular connected the driveway.”

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Upon arriving astatine the scene, archetypal responders said they discovered Broyles “lying down successful the driveway unarmed” and waiting for them.

Deputies searched the residence and recovered a grisly country inside, arsenic each 3 different members of Broyles’ household were dead, with each suffering from respective gunshot wounds.

In an interrogation with investigators, Broyles said helium made definite to sprout his wife, son, and girl “multiple times conscionable to marque definite they didn’t suffer,” Sheriff Bill Leeper said during a quality league pursuing the murders.

Investigators said Broyles started by shooting his woman successful the couple’s surviving country earlier moving connected to his daughter’s room, wherever helium changeable and killed his girl conscionable arsenic she was waking up. The slayer past broke down the doorway to his son’s chamber and changeable Aaron Christopher Broyles, 28. After hitting his lad with astatine slightest 1 round, Broyles near the room, grabbed different loaded gun, past came backmost and changeable his lad respective much times.

Investigators astatine the clip besides said that aft sidesplitting his family, Broyles was readying connected taking his ain life. However, helium aboriginal confessed that helium was incapable to spell done with it.

“When helium was asked wherefore helium didn’t conscionable sprout himself, helium said helium was excessively frightened to bash that, which is crazy,” Leeper said.

Leeper said investigators person “a beauteous bully idea” of what led to Broyles going connected the horrific sidesplitting spree, but those details person not been released.

Authorities said Broyles and his household had nary past of home unit and deputies had ne'er been called to the location earlier that day.

Prior to his arrest, Broyles had been the religion instrumentalist astatine Hodges Boulevard Presbyterian Church for 23 years, the organization’s website said successful December 2021. He antecedently worked successful the aerospace and aesculapian instrumentality industries.

“Bill has been happily joined for 30 years to Candace and they person 3 children, sons Evan and Aaron and girl Cara, on 3 brainsick Corgi pups,” the murderer’s bio connected the church’s website said. “In his escaped time, Bill enjoys each types of outdoor activities, reworking older cars, and location and plot projects.”

Following his arrest, the religion issued the pursuing statement:

“It is with tremendous sadness that I study to you that this Wednesday greeting Bill Broyles, our Director of Music, confessed to shooting his woman and 2 of his children. Bill has been portion of our religion unit for 23 years, and this was wholly retired of character. We mourn this devastating nonaccomplishment to the church, Bill’s remaining family, and the larger community. We inquire that you would clasp the members of the Broyles family, our religion family, and Bill himself successful your prayers regarding this tragedy.”