I don’t know if this story will return Minnesota to the national news today, but it should. David Brom is a quadruple ax-murderer. In 1988 Brom killed his parents, his brother, and his sister with an ax. Brom was 16 at the time he wiped out his entire family. He is being freed under a law passed by the “let’s go crazy” 2023 session of the DFL-controlled legislature and signed by Governor Walz.
Republican state representative Paul Novotny is chairman of the House Public Safety Committee. Not unreasonably, he has issued an “it ain’t me, babe” statement:
You may have seen the news reports that David Brom is scheduled to be released from prison later this month. Brom was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for the brutal murder of his entire family in 1988. His crime was so heinous, so senseless, that he should never be released.
Yet under a 2023 law passed entirely by Democrats—the DFL-controlled House, Senate, and Governor’s office—violent offenders like Brom who committed their crimes as juveniles and received consecutive life sentences are now eligible for release after just 30 years. This provision was part of the 2023 Public Safety and Judiciary Omnibus bill (Chapter 52, Article 18), which received zero Republican votes.
Let me be absolutely clear: this release is on the Walz Administration and the Democrat majorities in the legislature. Republicans fought against this provision because we believe that victims and public safety must come first—not violent offenders.
We respect the rule of law, but laws that allow a family murderer to walk free after three decades are fundamentally broken. The people of Minnesota deserve better—and I will continue fighting to restore common sense and accountability to our justice system.
Brom is to bed down at a halfway house at an undisclosed location somewhere in the Twin Cities. There he be will be let out on work release subject to GPS monitoring. Look out, down below.
