Man Kills His Wife’s Stepbrother Trying to Break Into Their Home

A South County homeowner shot and killed his wife’s stepbrother early this morning while the man reportedly was attempting to break into the family’s Torino Street home, despite a court order to stay away from the family.

Alfred LeBrun, 25, was killed almost instantly by a single shotgun shot in his chest, fired point-blank by Jeffrey S. Alix, 33, who was awakened in the middle of the night by what he told police sounded like a prowler.

“I feel numb,” Jeffrey Alix said today as stood in the living room of his one-story, single-family home at the end of a cul-de-sac. “I can’t believe it happened.”

The 1:58 a.m. shooting occurred when Alix, who had just gone to bed shortly after returning from work, heard the front door rattling, Sheriff’s Department spokesman Lt. Richard J. Olson said.

“(Alix) goes out in the front room, and at that point, he hears a gate at the side of the house being opened,” Olson said.

Alix then grabbed his 12-gauge shotgun and walked out of the house. As he passed through the gate and into the darkened back yard of his home, Olson said, he saw a silhouette of a man he said was trying to break through the glass door.

Alix screamed, Olson said, and when the unidentified man turned and apparently lunged at him, Alix fired once.

Alix’s wife, Lynn, 31, came running outside, and when she flipped on a light switch, the couple discovered that the shooting victim was her stepbrother.

LeBrun, described in court documents and neighbors as extremely violent, had been under a restraining order to stay away from the couple, their two children and Lynn Alix’s father, Charles Audet.