Who shot at Brandon Boudreaux in 2019 and what evidence tied Lori Vallow Daybell to it?

Brandon Boudreaux believes the shooter was Alex Cox, Lori Vallow's brother, firing from the back window of Lori's green Jeep Wrangler outside his Gilbert, Arizona home on October 2, 2019. At Lori's June 2025 trial, prosecutors showed storage-unit video of Lori and Chad Daybell removing the Jeep's rear seat and spare tire to make room for Cox, gunshot residue and Cox's DNA in the Jeep, and witnesses linking phone calls among Cox, Chad and Lori.

• The bullet hit the car's door frame a couple of inches from Brandon's head.
• The Jeep carried Texas plates and was later traced to an apartment complex in Rexburg, Idaho, about 900 miles from Phoenix.
• The day after the shooting, Lori and Cox were filmed taking the seat and tire back out of storage.

▸In their words

“I think the point where I realized for certain I had been shot at was when I saw the bullet hole in the frame.” Brandon Boudreaux · at 41:52 — open in the transcript →

Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on Dateline NBC (2026-10-27). Read the whole episode summary →

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