A Minnesota man is facing charges after killing a man he believed was “attempting to groom” his daughter. On March 8, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office received a call around 4:45 p.m.
from a witness claiming to have seen a minivan pull up to 77-year-old Lawrence Scully’s Grand Marias home — before hearing screaming and seeing the van speed away.
But police didn’t have to search long. Soon after, a man named Levi W. Axtell showed up at the sheriff’s office in a van matching the description, “covered in blood,” allegedly intoxicated, and begging to be handcuffed.
The 27-year-old confessed to beating Scully with a shovel from the man’s porch 15-20 times, saying he “finished him off” with a large moose antler, according to court documents acquired by the Star Tribune.
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