Posted on 03/11/2023 8:28:49 PM PST by algore
A Minnesota father slaughtered a 77-year-old convicted sex offender using a moose antler and shovel after he accused the victim of stalking his young daughter.
Levi Axtell, 27, walked into at the sheriff's office covered in blood and with his head in his hands as he admitted killing Lawrence Scully - who was jailed for molesting a six-year-old girl in 1979.
Axtell, from Cook County, Minnesota, had long been suspicious of Scully parking his vehicle at locations where children were present.
In 2018 Axtell filed an order of protection against the elderly man which was initially granted but later dropped.
Court records also show Scully was committed to a mental institution in 2020 but was later released and prescribed anti-psychotic drugs
A criminal complaint filed on Friday said Axtell repeatedly struck Scully with a shovel in his own apartment before 'finishing him off' with a large moose antler. At some point he is also believed to have smashed Scully's vehicle.
A criminal complaint states Axtell entered Scully's home at around 4.45pm and struck him 15-20 times with a shovel he had found on the victim's deck.
Axtell told officers he finished the job with a large moose antler, according to the complaint.
'Defendant said he had known (Scully) for a long time, and believed him to have sexually offended against children in the past,' it states.
'Defendant said he had observed (Scully) parked in his vehicle at locations where children were present and believed he would re-offend.'
A Cook County sheriff's deputy entered the property around 5pm on Wednesday and found Scully with 'major head trauma and surrounded by blood,' adding he was 'obviously dead.'
The father had walked into the police station covered in blood and with his head in his hands as he confessed to the killing.
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I would be careful here. Unless I hear more evidence to show this guy was gonna offend, then this is still a murder, and the reason for doing it may be all in the guy's head.
You don't just go and kill people for what you think they might do.
If he has good evidence that this guy was going to do something to a child, then yes, I would hope the court would go easy on him, but if he didn't, he should get a severe punishment for doing this.
That was one of my thoughts as well. I'm waiting to hear more proof that the dead man was a problem.
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