A person was charged with homicide Friday for allegedly beheading a girl whereas they have been in a automobile in visitors in suburban Minneapolis.
Prosecutors say Alexis Saborit, 42, attacked America Thayer, 56, on Wednesday afternoon at in intersection in Shakopee. Authorities haven’t mentioned what motivated the assault, however Soborit has a prison historical past that features a home assault conviction for an assault towards Thayer in 2017. At the moment, she mentioned that they had been courting seven years.
In accordance with the criticism and a search warrant affidavit within the second-degree intentional homicide case, police have been notified {that a} physique with no head had been pulled out of a automobile belonging to Thayer and {that a} suspicious man was seen strolling in a close-by alley. Police arrived to seek out Thayer’s headless physique on the bottom, subsequent to her bloodied automobile. Her head was a foot away. A machete-style knife, bloody shirt and sneakers have been present in an alley a couple of blocks away, the Star Tribune reported.
Saborit, of Shakopee, was scheduled to seem in Scott County courtroom Friday. He didn’t instantly have an legal professional to touch upon his behalf.
In accordance with courtroom paperwork, a number of individuals noticed the assault. One witness a couple of vehicles behind Thayer’s noticed Saborit make a hitting movement whereas sitting behind the wheel, then toss stuff. The witness then noticed Saborit drag what regarded like a physique out of the automobile.
One other individual recorded video by way of a residential window that appeared to point out Saborit pull Thayer out of the automobile after which choose up her head by the hair.
Saborit was arrested about 2.41 kilometres away, about three blocks from a resort the place he was staying.
On the time of the assault, Saborit was lacking a courtroom listening to in Scott County associated to allegations that he set hearth to his second-story residence in November throughout a confrontation with police in Shakopee. At one level throughout that standoff, Saborit brandished a machete.
In accordance with courtroom data within the 2017 gross misdemeanour home assault case, Saborit pinned Thayer to the bottom. She instructed police that Saborit was offended as a result of he thought she was speaking to a different man at a bar that night time.
Authorities haven’t mentioned what motivated the assault, however Soborit has a prison historical past that features a home assault conviction for an assault towards Thayer in 2017. At the moment, she mentioned that they had been courting seven years.
