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By Michael Donoghue, Vermont News First
Jozef I. Eller, wanted on an attempted second degree murder charge for the near fatal stabbing of his former boss at a Brandon restaurant on Saturday, has been jailed at the Marble Valley Correctional Center in Rutland.
Eller, 32, of Hancock was ordered held without bail on the attempted murder count and for violating a no-trespassing order, Vermont State Police said.
The former employee of Cafe Provence had been ordered to stay away from the Center Street restaurant, but he showed up about 4:30 p.m. Saturday and used a knife to attack the owner/chef multiple times in the head, authorities said.
The stabbing victim, Robert Barral, 71, of Brandon, was transferred from the Rutland Regional Medical Center to the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington where listed in stable late Saturday.
The Restaurant’s Chef owner Robert Barral is originally from the Languedoc area of France.
According to the Cafe Provence website, Robert is the former executive chef at New England Culinary Institute.
State Police said they located him about 10:10 p.m. Saturday in the town of Rochester and arrested him without incident. Vermont State Police were called in partly due to a staffing shortage with town police in Brandon, a community of about 4,200 residents. Five Brandon officers have departed since January, including three to the Rutland City Police and one to Middlebury. The department was down to the chief and one officer.
Eller is due to appear for arraignment at 12:30 p.m. Monday in Vermont Superior Court in Rutland.
Rutland County State’s Attorney Ian Sullivan worked with police into the night to develop the criminal charges.
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Categories: Public Safety
Interesting article, if poor cooks cold be attacked for lousy meals, my wife would have killed me many times over.
More to the point, why was a police force reduced to a chief and one officer? Guessing it had something to do with ” get rid of police movement ” promoted by our very liberal Democrat friends.
Sebastian,
Turns out this has little or actually nothing to do with the “get rid of police movement” as you say.
These officers all left for greener pastures aka more money to be made in larger neighboring communities.
“Brandon Chief David Kachajin said the officers all left on good terms”
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/vt-brandon-police-department-faces-officer-shortage-currently-hiring-for-3-positions/63460687
“Leaving on good terms” still doesn’t mean that the current climate of leftist hatred of anything authoritarian hasn’t convinced them they needed a career change. The ghost of George Floyd is still fomenting unwarranted distrust and disdain of public safety professionals…
Rich,
Nothing convinced these professionals that they needed a career change. They all are still working as police officers either in Middlebury or Rutland aka greener pastures.
We get it, you don’t like the left. But your blanket statements within these VDC comment sections blaming the left and their ideology for every problem under the sun comes off as lazy and contrived. Especially when the known reality runs opposite to your claims.
Must be the fault of felon Trump or Elon that you can’t even safely hang out in a fancy French restaurant these days…
Also happened after the Hands Off anti trump rally. Another resident had their mailbox plowed down with a car that day. The Anti Trump rally folks created much upset with their funded indivisible group in Brandon on Saturday, spreading hate. Brandon has been infested with the haters. Who is funding these protesters and groups for each event they hold?
I doubt this attack had anything to do with the political event. How likely is it that the schizophrenic with an established no trespassing order was just waiting for a post rally opportunity to do some stabbing.
That guy looks like evil personified
What a horrible thing to happen. Chef Robert is a wonderful chef and restaurant owner, I am sure had a valid reason for the no-trespass order against this madman. Hope Robert will fully recover from this evil attack.
The post-COVID deterioration of the work ethic has forced restaurants, and many other service businesses to have to hire morally questionable people. Combine that with the left promoting an unreasonable sense of entitlement on employees and we have this current atmosphere of violence directed against “the man”. “The man” can be anyone from the owner or manager of a business all the way up to the President of the US and his staff and advisors. This act of violence has the fingerprints of Saul Alinsky, George Soros and Vermont’s poor excuse for a criminal justice system all over it. Best wishes for a complete recovery for Chef Barral. His restaurant is a real asset to the area.
Rich,
It’s been reported that the attacker is a schizophrenic that stopped taking his meds. Knowing that, does this story still fit your Soros fingerprint narrative of the morally questionable and the left’s sense of entitlement now infiltrating service related positions?
Or maybe this unmedicated guy was just nuts to begin with. No outside influence needed.
If this violent behavior is tied to his schizophrenia and being off his meds, then another leftist social policy kicks in…where society has been convinced to stop the pre-emptive isolation of individuals who present an obvious danger to themself or others. The policy of institutionalizing dangerously mentally ill people was obviously an infringement on their civil rights, and we as a society decided that it should be discontinued. There is occasionally a price that must be paid for that decision, and this restauranteur has paid that price.