The brother of a transgender girl who allegedly murdered a millionaire developer, earlier than surrendering to authorities dressed up as a Blues Brother, didn’t know his sibling was transitioning — and was shocked to listen to of his alleged crime.
John Simmons, who lives in Massachusetts, mentioned he had no concept that his estranged brother Robert glided by Eleanor Beaulieu, or that his brother had killed somebody, till he was knowledgeable by the media.
“I haven’t heard from Robert in years… I’m not even positive what number of,” he advised The Day by day Mail.
“I do not know what he’s been doing, I actually can’t show you how to with that, I’m sorry,” he added.
Simmons, who admitted he was unaware that his sibling was figuring out as a lady, mentioned that he didn’t “know why he would do one thing like that.”
A SWAT crew cornered Beaulieu within the deceased 92-year-old man’s $6.3 million residence final Saturday, arresting him after a 7-hour siege.
He emerged from the house wearing a fedora and go well with, much like the 1980 motion film The Blues Brothers.
Beaulieu had barricaded himself contained in the residence and mentioned he was armed till police lastly coaxed him out and arrested him.
It’s unclear why Beaulieu would allegedly kill Demetrius Doukoullos, a rich retired property developer. Doukoullos had indicators of trauma and was decomposing, the health worker advised The Day by day Mail.
It’s unclear if the 2 knew one another.
Beaulieu, in the meantime, had a current prison historical past.
He was arrested on second-degree theft fees in Los Angeles in February 2025, however was launched and the fees had been dropped.
Final month, he was arrested and cited by police in Redondo Seashore for shoplifting.
Neighbors started to fret about Doukoullos once they not noticed him on his entrance porch, the place he was typically seen stress-free.
An upstairs neighbor then smelled a nasty odor coming from his unit and noticed a suspicious particular person getting into it. They contacted the owner, who then requested the police for a wellness test.
“The reporting get together acknowledged {that a} tenant who lives alone had not been heard from in a number of days,” police advised The Day by day Mail.
“With the help of the owner or the realtor, they granted us entry to go inside and so they situated any individual that was inside that didn’t match the outline of the resident,” they added.
Officers noticed somebody working right into a bed room and locking the door.
Beaulieu then made a press release that he “was armed and barricaded herself within the residence,” they mentioned.
After seven hours, as police ready to breach the residence, a baggy-suited Beaulieu got here out.
Police have arrested Beaulieu on homicide fees and are holding her on the Los Angeles County Males’s Central Jail on a $2 million bond.
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