Man broke into ex-girlfriend's home, killed her boyfriend with AR-15 and assaulted her in the bathtub 'so he could drain her blood': Police

A Minnesota antheral allegedly broke into the location of his ex-girlfriend and killed her caller fellow earlier assaulting her successful a bathtub.

Joseph David Bulfer, 44, is down bars astatine the Blue Earth County Jail aft being charged with murder, attempted murder, assault, and different charges. According to a Facebook station from the City of Mankato, constabulary were dispatched to a townhome successful Mankato, Minnesota, connected Sunday day aft a neighbour thought they heard gunshots coming from the location adjacent door. When they arrived, they encountered Bulfer and rapidly detained him.

According to a transgression ailment reviewed by Law&Crime, they searched the location and recovered a 37-year-old pistillate bleeding and cowering successful a bathtub. In the bedroom, they recovered a 52-year-old man, deceased from "catastrophic injuries."

While the pistillate was astatine the infirmary being treated for a caput laceration, a collapsed lung, and breached ribs, constabulary questioned her astir the incident. She identified the deceased antheral arsenic her existent boyfriend, and told constabulary she had antecedently dated Bulfer but broke up with him successful December 2025. According to the complaint, the pistillate said Bulfer had called her earlier connected Sunday saying that helium wanted to speech to her. She told Bulfer that she was going to religion and moving errands that day.

According to the complaint, the pistillate and her fellow were watching movies astatine her townhome astir 1:30 p.m. erstwhile she heard idiosyncratic travel done the beforehand door, which she said was locked. She said she heard idiosyncratic moving up the stairs, past Bulfer allegedly came into the chamber and fired aggregate shots from an AR-15 astatine her boyfriend. Police said Bulfer told the woman, "she did this and this was each her fault," forcing her to look astatine her boyfriend.

Police said Bulfer forced the pistillate into her bathroom, wherever helium deed her successful the caput with the "butt stock" of his rifle. According to the complaint, Bulfer continued to bushed the pistillate and instructed her to get into the bathtub "so helium could drain her blood."

In the complaint, constabulary said the deceased unfortunate called 911 himself astir the aforesaid clip arsenic the woman's neighbour to study that helium had been changeable with an AR-15. As the enactment remained open, the pistillate picked up the telephone to archer dispatchers that her fellow was dead. The speech betwixt Bulfer and his ex-girlfriend could beryllium heard, including respective alleged threats by Bulfer. Among the statements attributed to Bulfer were "you conscionable caused [Victim 1] to die" and "Do you privation maine to propulsion the trigger[?]"

Police said Bulfer was taken into custody without incident. After Bulfer was brought retired of the home, helium reportedly said, "I apologize for the inconvenience." He refused aesculapian attraction and told constabulary helium "just wanted to spell to jail."

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According to an autopsy, the fellow had six gunshot wounds to his caput and face, 4 gunshot wounds to his close limb and shoulder, 1 to his near arm, and a graze coiled to his torso.

Bulfer was charged with second-degree murder, attempted murder, 2 counts of assault, 3 counts of burglary, and 1 number of felony possession of a firearm. He is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected May 7.