PASCO COUNTY, Fla — It was a quiet Sunday night in 2005 when deputies say 79-year-old Beverly Bobrick was killed.
Her neighbors in Port Richey noticed she hadn’t grabbed her morning newspaper, so they checked her home and told the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office they found a back window forced open and the screen pushed in.
Deputies found Bobrick dead in her bedroom. Her dog had also been killed.
It wasn’t the first time they’d been there. Bobrick’s home was broken into weeks earlier, and a thief got away with about $80.
“And as far as I’m concerned the same sun of a gun came back and did it again and killed her. And he had to kill the dog on top of it? What kind of people are these?,” Bobrick’s neighbor William Meade told 10News in 2005.
Detectives looked into a possible connection to an attempted burglary a few streets away – but the investigation went nowhere.
Now, 15 years later, a man is under arrest.
Brian Vincent Stoll is charged with first-degree murder. He’s 34 years old.
That means he was 19-years-old when deputies say he killed Bobrick.
According to Pasco County court records, Stoll was arrested in 2005 for battery on a person 65 or older, but the charges were dismissed the following year.
In 2006, he was convicted of burglary, grand theft and witness intimidation for a string of crimes that spanned from April to Sep. 2005 – the month deputies say he killed Beverly Bobrick.
People who live in the neighborhood now remember getting the terrible news in 2005 that their neighbor had been killed.
"It was really disheartening to think, hey, where is he? Ya know, are they targeting other people?" neighbor Rhonda Ermlich said.
She says she was relieved when she learned of the arrest today.
"Just really, really glad. Closure for her, because that’s not what you ever expect. I’m going to live on a street where my neighbor will be brutally murdered," she said. "A lot of relief. Just thinking that he’s going to be accountable for what he did to hear. Because no one deserved to go what we she went through."
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office will provide more details about the case in a news conference Friday afternoon.
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