A Minnesota dad confessed to killing a sex offender he believed had once stalked his toddler daughter — and even “finished him off” with a moose antler, according to court documents obtained by Fox News.
Levi Axtell, 27, walked into a police station on March 8 covered in blood, fell to his knees and told cops he fatally beat Lawrence V. Scully, 77, with a shovel, Fox reported.
He added he’d “finished” the job with the moose part, he allegedly told cops.
With his hands on his head, Axtell then demanded to be handcuffed and threatened to hurt others if he wasn’t restrained, according to the report.
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office said they found Scully dead inside his home in Grand Marias, about two hours north of Duluth.
A witness called 911 after seeing someone “smash” a car in Scully’s drive and run into the older man’s home, police said. The witness then heard screaming, according to authorities.
Scully had been convicted of molesting a 6-year-old girl in 1979.
The pair had a long history of conflict, according to reports.
In 2018, Axtell accused Scully of “stalking” and “attempting to groom” his then-toddler daughter at her day care by parking his van at the facility, and tried to obtain an order of protection against the older man, according to WTIP.
The request was initially granted only to be dismissed weeks later.
Axtell was arraigned Friday on a second-degree murder charge and is being held on a $1 million bond.
There had been recent allegations against Scully, but Cook County Sheriff Pat Eliasen told the Associated Press they “didn’t reveal anything” and that most of the reports were “regarding harassment.”
Mexican prosecutors have launched an investigation into the alleged machete attack of a Utah dad vacationing with his wife in Cancun for Valentine’s Day.
“The Attorney General’s office is announcing that an investigation is underway regarding the apparent illegal deprivation of liberty of a tourist of U.S. nationality, which occurred in Cancun in February 2022,” the Quintana Roo prosecutor’s office told Fox News Digital.
Dustan Jackson, a 36-year-old contractor from Salt Lake City, told Fox News Digital Thursday that with four hours to spare before his flight back to the U.S. from Cancun, he wanted to pick up some chewing tobacco and called a cab.
“Mexico is not built off tobacco like America is – you can’t just go to the gas station and get a can of chew,” he said. “People think you can just get it at the airport. I tried that.”
They didn’t have it, he said.
According to a Cancun airport vendor, the only chewing tobacco product sold inside the airport is in the duty-free shops, and it comes in bags instead of tins.
So Jackson took a cab to the nearest gas station – which he said also didn’t have any, just cigarettes. He said he asked the taxi driver to bring him to a bigger store.
“Next thing I know, I show up to a grocery store, I get out at the grocery store, and bam! Light’s out,” he said.
He’d left at around 10 a.m., he said, and when he woke up, with serious injuries to the left shoulder and leg, it was dark. His front teeth were broken, and he had a welt on the back of his head, he said. His cellphone and credit card had been taken. He came to in a ditch.
“They hacked away at my entire left side of my body, shredding, trying to cut my tendons or kill me or whatever they were trying to freakin’ do,” he said. “And then they dumped me in a ditch. My shoulder’s completely broken off at this time.”
Pictures show the damage to his shoulder, which American surgeons spent months attempting to repair, and he provided an X-ray image of the artificial joint installed inside.
He says he has severe nerve damage and can no longer work as a countertop contractor or play catch with his daughter, who at 14 years old is already competing in varsity-level softball.
Jackson struggled to his feet, bleeding and wounded, and said he found himself in a rundown neighborhood somewhere in the desert.
“The first cops that I ran into, I swear it was a police station at least, they told me to go away,” he said.
So he wandered back outside and screamed for help. But none came.
“I decided to just give up,” he said. “And then for some reason, I don’t know how long later, I have this thought that you can’t give up.”
He had a family back home.
Finally, he wasn’t sure after how long, he encountered another police officer who treated his injuries and drove him to the airport.
Jackson said he wasn’t sure why the officer drove him to the airport instead of a hospital.
“She put a few bandages on me, why didn’t she take me to the hospital, I don’t know,” he said. “Some of the horror stories I’ve heard, I’m glad that [she] didn’t, because I could have been stuck down there. Who knows?”
But once in the airport, he faced new challenges. He didn’t have his phone. His wife had flown home without him. He couldn’t speak Spanish. And, he added, he looked “like a homeless person.”
Initially, he found a wheelchair. But since he no longer had a valid plane ticket, he said airport security officials eventually forced him out of it, and he found himself stuck on the floor, begging passersby for help.
Police in Cancun and at the tourist destination’s airport separately told Fox News Digital they had no record of the attack or any information to corroborate that a wheelchair had been taken away from Jackson.
Eventually, the Utah man found an international traveler, named Kayla Jackson, who helped him by contacting his wife and checking him into a hotel.
“My guardian angel,” Dustan Jackson said. “Luckily she had her flight canceled.”
That gave her time to listen to his story, he said. His wife, home in Utah, transferred money to arrange an overnight hotel stay and a new flight home.
His passport and bags were at the airport, and he was able to book a new flight and get home, where he underwent months of surgeries and treatments, he said. He was in a hospital bed from February to late April, and he returned in June when doctors discovered more nerve damage. It was only in the last two weeks that he’s been able to move around freely, he said.
He said he had not filed a formal police report or the U.S. embassy in Mexico but had contacted lawyers and was exploring the task.
A State Department official told Fox News Digital Friday that the government is aware of the incident.
“We stand ready to provide all appropriate consular assistance,” the official said.
Jackson, who has been unable to work his contracting job for months and is now posting DIY videos on YouTube, is trying to raise $124,000 on Kickstarter to fund a documentary about his ordeal. He said he also wants to start a podcast dedicated to other shocking stories.
For more information on his recovery, he set up a website, dustanjackson.com.
The 51-year-old, however, called himself an “autumn chicken,” clarifying that he isn’t opposed to welcoming more children down the line.
The Tesla CEO became a dad in 2002 when his son Nevada arrived, but the infant died at 10 weeks old.
Two years later, he and then-wife Justine Wilson welcomed twins Griffin and Vivian, now 18.
Musk and Vivian are estranged, with the teenager even changing her last name in June in order to not “be related to [her] biological father in any way, shape or form.”
Vivian also had her first and middle monikers changed at the time, as well as her gender.
Musk spoke to the outlet about their strained relationship, saying, “I have very good relationships with all the others. Can’t win them all.”
He and Wilson, 50, are also the parents of 16-year-old triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian, born in 2006.
In July, news broke that Musk is the father of Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis‘ twins. The little ones were born in November of the previous year.
The entrepreneur confirmed the news to Page Six, saying, “Bravo to big families. [I want to have] as many as I am able to spend time with and be a good father.”
Musk gave more insight into his expanding family via Twitter.
“Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis,” he wrote. “A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.”
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