Convicted ax killer David Brom says 'cloud of depression' impacted his thoughts in 1988

Convicted ax killer David Brom says 'cloud of depression' impacted his thoughts in 1988

ROCHESTER — David Brom said he felt like depression had been clouding his thoughts and emotions when he used an ax to kill his parents and two younger siblings in 1988. Members of the Minnesota Department of Corrections Supervised Release Board had to reconcile those acts carried out by Brom at age 16 with the 53-year-old man who appeared before them with a nearly spotless 37-year incarceration record. Brom had “changed everything about myself,”…