An El Dorado man was sentenced to six years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections last week in connection with a July incident that left multiple rounds fired and one injury.
David J. Brazle, 38, of El Dorado was facing charges of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm by certain persons and a habitual offender enhancement in the First Division of the Circuit Court of Union County. He was facing up to 62 years in prison.
According to court documents, in July, officers responded to a shooting that occurred in the Wildwood subdivision. Brazle had been sent to the Medical Center of South Arkansas with a gunshot wound to his right thigh.
Brazle told a Union County Sheriff’s Office detective he had been at home when two unknown men knocked on his door. He said he opened it and the men asked him a nonsensical question, at which point he tried to shut the door.
He said the two men forced their way into his home and he began shooting at them with a pistol he had on his person. He ran down the residence’s hall with his nephew for a box of ammunition to reload.
Brazle told an officer that between three and five of the shots he fired went into and through the front of his residence. A 15 year-old across the street was asleep on a couch in his own residence when one of the shots fired went into the couch, barely missing the neighbor’s head.
Brazle was set to head to trial today; instead, he made a plea agreement which lessened his sentence. In addition to the six years in the ADC for the aggravated assault charge, Brazle was also sentenced to 10 years suspended imposition of sentence for possession of a firearm by certain persons.
The habitual offender enhancement was not prosecuted as part of the plea agreement. Brazle has been convicted of two prior felonies, which is why he was not allowed to possess a firearm.
Caitlan Butler can be reached at 870-862-6611 or [email protected].