Published: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 6:01 PM Updated: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 6:05 PM
The Times-Picayune
A woman who killed her boyfriend in St. Bernard Parish in 2008 pleaded guilty to manslaughter in state District Court in Chalmette Tuesday and will spend five years in prison, authorities said.
District Judge Jacques Sanborn sentenced Connie Reeb, 32, to 10 years, with five years suspended. After she leaves prison, she must also serve three years active probation, authorities said.
Reeb was initially booked with second-degree murder in the shooting death of her boyfriend, Ralph Brossette, in the Violet home they shared. Reeb, who had been living with Brossette for around six months at the time of the Nov. 24, 2008 homicide, told investigators that Brossette had abused and threatened her and her two children.
At the time of the homicide, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said Reeb originally told investigators that someone else had come into the home and shot Brossette. But under questioning, she said that Brossette returned home from a local casino around 6:30 a.m. and that when he fell asleep she sent her children outside to play with their puppy and shot Brossette with a .38-caliber pistol as he slept. She told investigators at the time that she feared Brossette would kill her. The weapon was recovered in the backyard of the house.
Reeb has been out of jail on $250,000 bond since February 2009, the Sheriff's Office said Tuesday. Reeb, who is pregnant, will report to prison after the birth of her child, authorities said.
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RALPH BROSSETTE WA ARRESTED A WEEK
PRIOR TO THIS INCIDENT WHEN HE PULLED A GUN OUT AND POINTED AT SOMEONE,HE HAS A HISTORY OF ARREST WHICH INCLUDED ABUSE ON HIS WIFE AOSO ABUSE ON HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND AND MOTHER OF HIS CHILD.
EVERY JUDGE IN ST BERNARD PARISH SEEN HIM MORE THEN THEY COULD STOMACH.
THIS GUY BEAT AND RAPED THIS WOMAN
HE ATTACKED HER AND HER CHILDREN AND THE MORNING OF THE INCIDENT HE HAD THREATNED TO GET HER AND HER SON PLACING THEM IN IMMINENT DANGER ONCE AGAIN..
RALPH BROSSETTE HAD ASSAULT RILES LOADED IN THE HOME HE HAD SEVERAL HAND GUNS LOADED IN THE HOME HE KNEW THAT ALL THRE OF THESE VICTIMS WERE TO TERRIFIED TO TOUCH THEM THIS TIME HE WAS WRONG.
ALL THESE WEAPONS WERE PUT BACK IN HIS HANDS IN JULY BY THE SHERIFFS DEPT AND THE COURTS CHARGES HE WAS FACING ONCE AGAIN WERE DROPPED ,JUST LIKE EVERY CHARGE HE EVER HAD.
THIS TIME HE WAS AN INFORMANT FOR THE FBI IN THE CORRUPTION CASE AGAINST JUDGE CRESSIP AND ATTY CUSIMANO WHO WAS HIS ATTORNEY AT ONE TIME.
HOW COULD THIS WOMAN GET OUT WHAT AUTHORITY WAS SHE TO CALL THE FBI STOOD IN HER HOME WHAT WERE THEY TRAINED TO SEE IN PEOPLE BUT THEY GOT THERE 3 MEN WHILE THEY PUT 3 LIVES IN DANGER.
YOU REALLY DON'T HAVE ALL THE FACTS AND A PLEA IS NOT WHAT THIS WOMAN WANTED SHE WANTED A JURY TO SEE ALL THE FACTS OF THE ENTIRE CASE OTHERS DID NOT WANT THAT.
A PLEA WAS SHOVED AT HER.
SHE THOUGHT OF HER CHILDREN HAVING TO RELIVE ALL OF THIS AGAIN SO SHE TOOK THE PLEA.
AS A MOTHER MYSELF I COULD NOT IN GOOD CONSCIOUSNESS MAKE THIS WOMAN PAY FOR WHAT HAPPENED KNOWING FULL WELL THAT YOUR SON ABUSED NOT ONLY THIS WOMAN BUT OTHERS AND HE ABUSED ANYONE WHO GOT IN HIS WAY WITH NO REMORSE.
HE WAS SHOT WITH HIS OWN WEAPON THAT TELLS YOU SOMETHING RIGHT THERE.
YOU WERE CORRECT THIS WAS YOUR SON THE GOOD THE BAD, THE UGLY AND THE SO CALL BIPOLAR MORE LIKE A PSYCOPATH.
THIS YOUNG WOMAN AND HER CHILDREN ARE SURVIVORS.
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