Brandon Boudreaux speaks out seven years after surviving attempted assassination linked to Lori Vallow

Brandon Boudreaux, who narrowly survived a shooting outside his Arizona home in 2019, is sharing his account of the events that prosecutors linked to a murder-for-hire plot involving Lori Vallow Daybell. Seven years after the attack, he has published a book detailing the ordeal and its impact on his family.

On October 2, 2019, a gunman allegedly opened fire from a parked Jeep Wrangler as Boudreaux pulled his Tesla into the driveway of his home in Gilbert, Arizona. A bullet struck the driver’s-side door and shattered the window, narrowly missing him.

Prosecutors alleged that Vallow recruited her brother, Alex Cox, to kill Boudreaux amid his contentious divorce from her niece, Melani Pawlowski. Cox was identified as the suspected shooter but died in December 2019 without facing charges.

In June 2025, an Arizona jury convicted Vallow of conspiring to murder Boudreaux. She had also been convicted in a separate Idaho case in 2023 of murdering her two children, Tylee Ryan and Joshua “JJ” Vallow, and conspiring to kill Tammy Daybell, the former wife of her husband, Chad Daybell. In April 2025, another Arizona jury convicted her of conspiring to murder her estranged husband, Charles Vallow.

Boudreaux recounts his experience in his new book, Unthinkable, which he initially wrote for his four children to help them understand what happened and the decisions he made during that period.

“I’m sure I made some mistakes,” he told Fox News Digital, explaining that he wanted his children to have a fuller account of the ordeal and find closure.

He said the experience affected his ability to trust others, particularly because he continued to fear that someone might still be targeting him. Boudreaux remarried in 2020.

Although he has now decided to share his story publicly, he declined to discuss details of the shooting investigation, saying he wanted law enforcement to handle that work. The Gilbert Police Department confirmed to NBC News that the investigation remains active.

Through his book, Boudreaux also hopes to convey a message about resilience, personal worth and the choices people make after experiencing difficult circumstances.