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On October 12, 2022, Nicholas Brutcher got into a bar fight—hours later, he lured police to his home with a fake 9-1-1 call and ambushed them. Two officers were killed, one wounded, and Brutcher was shot dead.
this was just hours before disaster that ended with two police officers and 35 year old man dead…..
our story starts on october 12th , 2022 at seven thirty pm bristol , connecticut. when police were notified of a small fight at a local bar called bleachers bar.
inside the bar that night were nicholas brucher. and his younger brother nathan brucher.
nicholas got physical with someone at the bar as seen on the bar’s surveillance camera.the man approached nicholas and nicholas told him not to touch him.
when the man did,nicholas struck him with an elbow to the face,the man then backed off and that’s when local dispatchers were notified.
by the time officers arrived the brothers had already left the bar,police tracked them down not just because of the fight but mainly because they had left the bar and were driving under the influence.
officers eventually located the brothers on their way home and pulled them over.
as you can tell nicholas was conpletely out of it,having had a lot of drink that night at the bar. when officers spoke to his brother nathan he claimed he wasn’t drunk.but it was clear that he was just not as intoxicated as nicholas.
nathan admitted to officers that he was driving on a suspended licence, which is an arrestable offense in connecticut.however officers decided not to arrest him because their home was less than a mile away and nathan he was only driving to do his brother a favor since nicholas was in no condition to drive .
instead officers issued then a ticket,toward their truck and arranged a way to get them home as neither brother was in a state to drive, as the two was separated officers spoke to nicholas and it was obvious he was completely drunk.
he began berating the officers and in response they humiliated him back ,at one point nicholas even told an officer that he wanted to hurt him, the officer took it as a joke having no idea that what nicholas said would soon lead to a tragedy .
nicholas was also issued a ticket for public disturbance after getting nathan home their mother came back for nicholas and this time he got in the car with her.
nicholas didn’t leave with his mother ,he lived in a separate house next door.now,before getting to what happened next,let’s take a moment to learn more about nicholas brucher.
nicholas got married in 2015 and had two children with the woman he married.but by2019 but by 2019 the couple was going through a divorce.it wasn’t easyy for nicholas.
especially when he fount out that his ex wife had started a relationship with his best friend.
in fact ,it later became clear that she had already been seeing his best friend while stillwith nicholas,the betrayal was a deep shock for him.
and it changed his personality,he began drinking heavily and using large amounts of drugs at one point he even told his friends that he had thoughts of harming his former best friend and his family.
eventually nicholas began attending therapy and things improved slightly.
but everything changed again, when his ex wife announced that she was pregnant.expecting a child with that same best friend.
the due date ,it was the same night nicholas and his brother went to the bar…..
now getting back to that night.after police made sure nicholas left with his mother ,local dispatchers received a 911 call, the caller was nicholas brutcher himself.
what they didn’t realize at the time,was that it was a setup,when nicholas got home he changed into body amor,grappbed his gun and hid in the bushes outside his house .
he then called 911.falsy reporting a domestic dispute.luring officers to the scene.
right after the call, officers were dispatched to the residence,when they arrived they were met with a horrific scene.
nicholas suddenly emerged from the bushes armed and opened fire.shooting multiple rounds at the officers.three officers were hit.
sergeant dustin demonte,officer alex hamsy,and officer alec urado. who responded to the call.
nicholas had given the address of his mother’s home so when officers arrived it was nathan brucher, his brother who opened the door.
completely unaware of what was about to happen , suddenly nicholas came out of the bushes and began firing random shots.non stop.
he fired 83 rounds in under two minutes,even striking his own brother during the ambush .
both sergeant demonte and officer hamzy were killed instantly.
as seen on the body cam footage officer alec urado managed to escape the gunfire and made it off the the front porch, while wounded he returned fire delivering a single shot to nicholas butcher’s chest.killing him instantly.
so what could have driven nicholas to this deadly reaction….