Charles Austin Broyles, lowlife vigilante piece of crap, won't need a sign language interpreter to decipher the message i'll have for him should we ever cross paths.
Charles Broyles gets 20 years in prison after jury finds him guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
6/8/25
By SARA VANDEN BERGE
Charles Broyles is heading to prison.
It took an Erath County jury of five women and seven men less than an hour on Thursday to find Charles Broyles guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
An Erath County jury on Friday sentenced the “vigilante shooter” to 20 years in prison following Thursday’s guilty verdict.
Charles Broyles stood accused of targeting registered persons living in Stephenville.
Broyles has been charged with shooting Randell C. in the face on the night of Dec. 3, 2023.
C. told jurors that on the night of Dec. 3, 2023, he was in the living room around 10 p.m. when someone started knocking on the door of his home in the Starlight Mobile Home Park in Stephenville.
“I asked who it was and there was no answer,” C. said. “I was hesitant to answer the door and I looked out the window,” but saw no one.
He said the knocking continued and he went to the kitchen to get a “steak knife.”
He told jurors that he carried the knife in his right hand as he made his way to the front door.
“As it was opening, I was jolted forward to the porch and that’s when they stepped out and shoved a phone in my face,” he said.
The phone, Cowan said, had a picture of him from the sex offender registry.
He said he heard the assailant say, “Is this you?”
“I nodded and that’s when there was a loud ringing in my ears and I fell back into the house,” Cowan said.
“I noticed there was blood everywhere. I could hear my mother screaming as I was trying to figure out where all the blood was coming from.”
He said he could hear his mother talking to someone, then heard sirens in the distance.
“She was screaming that the paramedics were coming to help me,” he said.
C. said he had never met Broyles and has no connection to him.
C. said he spent 37 days in the hospital and underwent five surgeries. He said he continues to experience numbness, dizziness and trouble eating.