Man with violent history faces new charges after Mass. home robbery
A Massachusetts man previously sentenced to a decade in prison for a shooting pushed his way into a woman's house and robbed her in Somerset Thursday.
Jesse Brule , 35, is expected to be arraigned on Tuesday in Rhode Island and then extradited to Massachusetts to face multiple felony charges, including breaking and entering in the daytime and assault and battery on an elderly person.
Around 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 9, Brule knocked on a door at 311 Highview Ave. in Somerset and asked if a specific person lived at the residence, according to Somerset police. He was told that no one by that name resided there.
He knocked the woman to the ground and went inside the home. The woman was able to flee the home and run to a neighbor's home for help. The neighbor immediately called 911.
A neighbor was also able to get the license plate information on a car he had parked nearby.
The woman later reported that several items had been stolen from her home.
Officials spent days searching for Brule.
At about 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, officials found Brule's unoccupied car in the Burger King parking lot in Middletown, Rhode Island. Shortly thereafter, a detective saw Brule walking through the parking lot toward the vehicle and positively identified him.
Brule then left the lot and parked behind Planet Fitness. He was then arrested.
In 2018, Brule was convicted by a jury after a three-day trial in Fall River Superior Court regarding a 2016 shooting. The jury found Brule guilty of assault and battery by discharge of a firearm, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon-causing substantial injury and carrying an illegal firearm.
On Aug. 5, 2016, another man was sleeping on his friend's couch in a South Main Street apartment. The man woke up after hearing noises outside. When he looked outside, he saw individuals with flashlights looking into vehicles.
The man and his friend confronted the individuals and briefly chased them. But Brule held the man and his friend at gun point. Brule shot the man twice when he tried to lunge at him.
The man recovered.
Assistant District Attorney Patrick Driscoll had previously argued for Brule to get a 13 to 20 year state prison term.
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